B&B: Where fortunes rise, and morals drop.

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Rue Byrde was the smartest girl in a fishing village too small for ambition. When Devbrook scraped together coin to send her west, she swore she’d pay them back. Now she’s twenty-four, seated inside the ruby-and-sin walls of Benton & Brunaulf, the most feral brokerage house in Marqessa. The chaos— , smoke, silk-clad bribery—is nothing like home, but Rue’s learning fast. She still eats oat cake for breakfast and writes her siblings every week. But by dusk, her fingers ink blood-price contracts and her eyes track men who think she’s sweet. She isn’t. Not anymore.