Overview
Yekaterina "Kat" Vasilyeva has spent years making herself small. After surviving torture and losing everyone she loved, she's learned that staying alive often means staying invisible. It isn't much of a life, but it's the closest thing to safety she's been able to find. Until an old enemy forces her to choose between shrinking again... or accepting protection from an organization powerful enough to keep her alive. There's only one catch.
They sell people.
After everything she's been through, the idea of owning another human being is repugnant. It feels like a betrayal of everything her family has ever stood for. But this doesn't seem like the kind of meeting you walk away from empty-handed. Refusing won't dismantle the system or free the people trapped inside it. It will only leave them behind glass walls to be sold, broken, or quietly erased.
Accepting responsibility for four strangers may save their lives.
It may also become the one choice she can never forgive herself for.
As the people around her begin to challenge everything she thought she knew about agency, loyalty, consent, and love, Kat must decide whether surviving is worth compromising everything she believes...and whether the people she was told to own could become the only family she has left.
Some scars never stop hurting.
Some choices leave no clean hands.
And sometimes surviving is the least complicated part.
Content Note: This novel contains depictions or discussions of human trafficking, institutionalized slavery, psychological abuse, coercive control, torture, PTSD, OCD, violence, murder, and off-page sexual assault.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798353041696
- ISBN-10: 9798353041696
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: August 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.08 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 434
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