Trading Hearts Book Two The Counterparty

You learned to find the chair that shouldn't be there. Now you'll be shown who sat in it - and you will believe the wrong answer.

In the second movement of Trading Hearts, the room turns on itself. The decorum of Book One cracks into desire, betrayal, and vengeance: alliances consummated and broken across the great houses of money, a love web that crosses every border and every loyalty, a Gala no one survives intact. Scenes you thought you understood are rewritten before your eyes - the weaves run deeper here, and each revelation changes what Book One actually meant.

Then, at the midpoint, a villain is unmasked. An external enemy, named at last, exposed and condemned. The room exhales. You exhale.

You should not have.

Narrated by the Exchange - which is lying to you about exactly one thing - The Counterparty is the saga at its most dangerous: a story that hands you the answer precisely so you'll stop looking. By the last page the chair is still warm, the name was false, and everyone at the table is afraid of everyone else.

Read Book One first. Then learn how little it protected you.