The Debt He Refused to Claim : A High-Heat Paranormal Romance
Overview
Neris Black has spent her entire life learning that every kindness has a price.
In Blackwater, favors are never forgotten. Rescue creates obligation. Family loyalty becomes currency. Even love can be entered into a ledger and collected later.
According to the fifth gate, Neris owes Lucian Cross more than anyone.
Six years ago, she walked away from him because loving Lucian would have given their families one more weapon to use against them.
Now he has come back.
But Lucian refuses to collect.
He wants no repayment for the life he once helped save. No ownership because he protected her family. No future she has not chosen for herself.
And the fifth gate has no idea what to do with a man who refuses to claim what the system insists he is owed.
As Neris and Lucian uncover the truth beneath Blackwater, they discover the gate was never meant to turn kindness into debt. It was built to distinguish gifts from loans, care from obligation, and freely chosen responsibility from control.
Someone changed it.
Now Concordance wants access to the gate, Blackwater is being forced to choose between desperately needed help and its independence, and an even more dangerous power is waking beneath Silvergrave.
The sixth gate does not collect debts.
It erases identities.
To save Blackwater, Neris must dismantle everything her family taught her about obligation while confronting the one truth she has avoided for six years:
She still loves Lucian.
But this time love cannot be a debt, a prophecy, or a supernatural command.
It has to be a choice.
And Lucian intends to keep choosing her without ever claiming that she belongs to him.
The Debt He Refused to Claim is Book Five of The Silvergrave Bloodlines, an interconnected adult paranormal romance series featuring second-chance love, supernatural magic, dangerous conspiracies, strong heroines, protective heroes, found family, emotional healing, high romantic tension, and love powerful enough to challenge the systems built to control it.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798175819954
- ISBN-10: 9798175819954
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: September 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.45 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.64 pounds
- Page Count: 214
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