Sabine Kyle

She witnessed a senator's crime. Before she could report it, the Collegia Noctis took her instead. The man who designs the trials is the youngest Arbiter in its history — and he volunteered to train her.

Two years ago the Collegia destroyed Asha Brenner. Now she's back with a fake name and a match — and the Proctor who enforced her ruin recognizes her immediately. He says nothing. He watches.

The Collegia has been burying money for 150 years. They hired forensic auditor Tess to open the books — and assigned the 6-foot-4 Advocate to keep her alive.

Eight years ago the Drazan House buried the body that would have sent Marta to prison, and she's been paying down a debt she never signed for ever since. Then a corpse arrives under papers too perfect to be real, and the House's collector is already on her doorstep — the man who's watched her from the edge of her life for eight years, finally calling the favor.

Forensic accountant Serafina walks into Rafael Drazan's gala on a stolen keycard to prove he killed her sister — and gets caught in his vault with his secrets in her fist. He doesn't call security. He calls a jeweler. By morning the city knows the Drazan heir has a fiancee, and the woman who came to expose him is locked in his house with a ring she never chose.