{"product_id":"velvet-debt-luca-aresu-9798259133167","title":"Velvet Debt: A Dark Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003eShe came to Venice to steal a ring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe didn't know it had already chosen her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaëlle is a thief who doesn't leave traces - no fixed address, no attachments, no debts she didn't choose. When she lifts a plain dark ring from the finger of a stranger at a Carnival party, she expects to fence it and disappear. Instead, she finds three contacts who won't touch it, a network she didn't know existed, and the man she stole it from waiting for her at a café she chose thirty seconds before walking in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorian Valcieri doesn't chase. He doesn't threaten. He simply tells her, with the complete patience of someone who has already accounted for every possible answer, that she has entered his system - and that the most interesting currency she could pay him back in isn't money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's usefulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is a game of observation and counter-observation between two people who have spent their entire lives watching others and have never, until now, found someone watching back with equal precision. He knows things about her that predate Venice. She knows things about him that he didn't intend to reveal. Neither of them can afford to admit what is actually happening between them - but the record, as someone once told her, doesn't end when the balance clears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe record continues. Because the balance was never the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor readers who like their slow burn to feel genuinely dangerous, their heroes morally grey without apology, and their romance built from the wreckage of two people who were absolutely certain they didn't need anyone.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStandalone dark romance. High tension. Slow burn with a payoff. HEA.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luca Aresu,Bianca Caruso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798259133167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/27\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d","brand":"Luca Aresu","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097314828543,"sku":"9798259133167","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/velvet-debt-luca-aresu-9798259133167","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}