book cover of Collateral Claim
 

Collateral Claim

(2025)
(The first book in the Sovereigns series)
A novel by

 
 
He announced our engagement before I even knew his name.

My life was turned upside down the night a stranger stood before a room of powerful people and said that I was his fiancée.
My father did nothing.

Now I belong to Endo Macarley.
At least until he gets what he wants:
his brother’s freedom.

I’m his collateral.
And his house is a prison of marble and menace.
Every corner hums with danger,
and it always finds me.

But the more I fight him, the more those lines between hatred and something far more dangerous blur.
Because the scariest part isn’t that he took me.
It’s that I’m not sure I want him to let me go.

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this enemies-to-lovers dark romance, where both characters are over 30, contains dark themes, suspense, and an unapologetic villain.

Tropes:
enemies-to-lovers
Morally grey hero
imposed engagement
close proximity
opposites attract



Genre: Romantic Suspense

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