Savage Advocate

by Sabine Kyle · Dark Academia Romance

The Collegia Noctis has been burying money for 150 years. The Ashcroft Preservation Fund is the visible mechanism — an endowment that funds scholarships, maintains the buildings, and, somewhere beneath the surface, moves $2.3 million into accounts that don't exist on any public filing. Seven subsidiary entities. Seven connected institutions. A disbursement code nobody can explain. The reformed Council hired Tess Calloway to open the books. She's twenty-eight. Forensic auditor. Daughter of a man currently serving seven years at FCI Danbury for a nearly identical crime. She counts everything — steps, seconds, the line weights of her mechanical pencils. In nine years of auditing institutions that didn't want to be audited, she has never been stopped. They assigned the Advocate to keep her alive. Cain Marchetti is six foot four, 230 pounds, and learned early that size is a language.