The Wren House Debt

About this book

Twenty-eight-year-old Matthias Cole inherited his father's debt-collection agency and, with it, an obligation to the Halloran family that has kept him running errands he despises for three years. His last assignment before he's supposed to walk free is simple on paper: collect one hundred eighty thousand dollars from Wren House, an unlicensed brownstone shelter on Sycamore Street run by twenty-six-year-old Nadia Okafor, a former accountant who traded her career for something she refuses to let anyone take from her. Nadia has no money to give and no intention of giving it. What she has instead is knowledge—records that connect Matthias's father's business to people far more dangerous than either of them wants to name. As Matthias keeps returning to Wren House under the excuse of due diligence, he starts seeing what the shelter actually is: women learning to drive again, rebuilding credit histories erased by abusive partners, choosing new names for new lives. He starts seeing Nadia, too—unimpressed by his suit, unafraid of his employers, and entirely unwilling to let him collect anything from her without a fight. Over seven escalating weeks in present-day Chicago, Matthias buys time with lies he can't sustain, stands between the Hallorans and the people he's supposed to be extracting money from, and is finally handed a choice that has nothing to do with debt: whether protecting what he's come to love means disappearing, or standing in the fire it might cost them both. A slow-burn, high-stakes romance about complicity, inheritance, and the difference between paying off a debt and earning your way out of one.

Book details

Genres:

Dark Romance, Crime Drama, Contemporary Thriller, New Adult Romance

Language:

en

Published:

2026-07-05

Content rating:

PG-13