Captain Kawriz
Serafina "Fina" Cattaneo has spent seventeen years hiding the gift that destroyed her family.
By day, she's a brilliant forensic accountant who trusts only numbers.
In secret, she's the last surviving Ledger Reader—a rare bloodline able to see the invisible marks that every promise, betrayal, and murder leaves on human skin.
It's the same gift that drove her mother to madness and death.
When the FBI sends Fina undercover to audit the powerful Moretti Capital, she expects to uncover financial crimes—not impossible magic.
The marks covering Matteo Moretti's skin tell a story unlike anything she's ever seen: inherited debts, centuries old, and someone desperately trying to erase them before they consume another generation.
Matteo has been waiting for her.
He knows exactly who Fina is and what she's capable of reading.
He also knows a truth buried deep within his family's hidden ledger vault—a truth linking the Morettis to the murder of Fina's grandfather and a secret powerful enough to destroy the very system that has ruled the city's crime families for generations.
As the investigation draws them together, Fina discovers the greatest danger isn't the money laundering or the mafia empire.
It's falling for the one man whose family ruined hers—and realising he's willing to burn his own legacy to the ground to end the cycle of inherited guilt.
With enemies closing in and the past demanding blood, Fina must decide whether justice means exposing the truth... or destroying it forever.
The Debt Ledger is a slow-burn mafia fantasy romance about inherited sins, impossible choices, and the price of breaking the debts that bind generations.
It's a story about two people who each believe love has to be earned through suffering — and what it costs them to learn otherwise.
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