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Payback

(2026)
(The second book in the Essex Sisters series)
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The Vanes don’t forgive.

They don’t forget.

And they never let anyone take what’s theirs.


Stella Vane was born into a world built on fear, loyalty and dirty money. Now she’s ready to drag the family business into a new era, cleaner, sharper and more powerful than ever before. Property. Front companies. Legitimate money. Stella doesn’t just want to survive the streets. She wants to own them.

But her sister Cassie is no one’s puppet.

Still grieving, still angry, and still carrying scars from the violence that nearly destroyed her, Cassie knows something inside the Vane family has gone rotten. Stella is hiding secrets. Sean, the man promised to one sister and tangled with the other, is running out of places to stand. And Marcella Vane, the mother who built the family empire from nothing, knows far more about the past than she has ever admitted.

Then Rosa Beckford comes for payback.

Cool, clever and dangerous, Rosa knows the Vanes can’t be beaten from the outside. To destroy them, she only has to make them turn on each other.

As old betrayals rise and blood ties snap, will Stella and Cassie end up on opposite sides of the family they were born to protect?

In the Vane world, loyalty is everything…

Until power costs more.

Perfect for fans of Martina Cole, Kimberley Chambers and Jessie Keane, Payback is a gritty, addictive gangland thriller about sisters, secrets, revenge and the women ruthless enough to rule.



Genre: Mystery



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