Paid to the Devil — Ebook

Description

About Paid to the Devil

He owns every debt in Harbor City. I’m the only thing he keeps off the books.

My father left me three things: a nightclub, a funeral bill, and a debt big enough to bury me next to him.

Then Dorian Vale walked into what was left of my bar at four in the morning and offered me thirty days.

Thirty days of his protection. Thirty days on his arm in rooms where men decide who keeps breathing. Thirty days to prove my father didn’t steal four million dollars from the most dangerous people on the waterfront.

They call him the Devil because he never forgets what he’s owed. He’s eleven years older than me, he’s never raised his voice in his life, and he has one rule he made very clear before I signed.

I don’t take bodies as payment, Mr. Reyes. If you’re ever on your knees for me, it will be because you asked.

So I asked.

Now I’m in his bed, in his ledger, and in the crosshairs of the men who actually took that money. And the Devil who swore he’d never buy me just did something behind my back that I’m not sure I can forgive.

Because my father didn’t steal Dorian’s money.

He hid it from the man who did.

Paid to the Devil is a dark, high-heat MM mafia romance with an eleven-year age gap, a possessive older banker and the mouthy bartender who can’t be bought, forced proximity, a thirty-day contract with one clause that matters, on-page violence, a lot of on-page spice, no cheating, and a guaranteed HEA. Dual first-person POV. Book 2 of Kings of Harbor City. Can be read as a standalone.

Why readers will love it

• A mob banker who has never raised his voice and keeps every debt in green ink
• A mouthy nightclub owner who pours a fourteen-month-waitlist rum on a collector’s shoes
• One rule: he doesn’t take bodies as payment, so you’ll have to ask. In a complete sentence
• A waterfront chapel turned nightclub: an altar bar, confessional booths, and a choir loft behind one-way glass
• Eleven-year age gap, praise, control, “eyes on me,” and a gray silk tie on a walnut headboard
• A hand on the back of the neck in a room full of dangerous men

Ebook edition details

Format: Digital EPUB ebook (not a paperback or audiobook). Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno. Audience: Adults 18+.

Content notes

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes, including praise, edging, consensual power exchange, light bondage with a necktie, and sex without condoms after on-page testing), on-page violence (vandalism, a break-in, an armed assault, a gunshot graze, a man struck in the face with a bottle), threats and intimidation of employees, the death of a parent (before the book opens, recounted) and complicated grief for a dishonest father, organized crime, embezzlement and financial coercion, a love interest who makes a major financial decision behind his partner’s back (confronted and repaired on page), the past murder of two people under a character’s protection (recounted), an implied off-page killing, alcohol, and strong language. No sexual violence, no dub-con, no cheating. Intended for readers 18+.

Read Chapter One free · Prefer audio? See the audiobook edition · More books by Rafe Calder