Noel Morrow

Beatriz Soriano is a university bookkeeper with a dangerous quirk: she is terrible at lying, but she can read people's souls and secrets like balanced ledgers. In the college town of Osorio, funded by a massive haunted endowment, ghosts and magic are currency. When Beatriz is unknowingly drafted into a supernatural proxy war, she finds herself physically and fundamentally mirrored against Valentin Montoya—a dangerously capable enforcer fighting for the opposition. As they exchange blows and uncover secrets in alternating turns, both realize they are fighting a war where neither side knows who actually pays their wages. To survive the unseen masters of the endowment, the human ledger and the rival proxy must calculate the true cost of their survival, risking the very souls they guard.

Nneoma works the night shift at Odimene General Hospital, a sprawling, hidden facility where the day staff files away injuries they cannot explain, and the night staff deals with the monsters who caused them. As a Scavenger, Nneoma can touch any broken object and see exactly what it used to be. She uses this skill to scrape together a living, hiding from a supernatural debt she inherited. But when Kameke—a lethal debt collector for the hidden ward bosses—comes to collect a price that cannot be paid in money, Nneoma is forced onto a deadly transport route through the hospital's deepest, most dangerous stations. Bound together by an undeniable mate-bond that neither wants, they must survive a journey where the medicine is worse than the sickness, and the debt demands a piece of a soul.