Lucy Hernandez

Blood Debt

• Thriller
• Crime Fiction

Adriana Costa is a regular woman whose life is measured in grocery lists and morning commutes—until a parking lot becomes her prison. Kidnapped by a brutal mafia syndicate, she finds herself the ultimate bargaining chip in a game of millions. Her father, a disgraced accountant, has vanished with laundered blood money, leaving Adriana to pay the price in a series of claustrophobic safe houses. Her warden is Lorenzo 'The Ghost' Gallo, a lethal enforcer who views her as nothing more than leverage. But as the authorities fail and her father remains in hiding, Adriana realizes that no one is coming to save her. When the mob turns their sights on her younger brother, the terror shifts from fear to a cold, calculated rage. Trapped between a wavering guard and a killer losing his patience, Adriana must learn to speak the language of her captors. To escape the darkness, she will have to embrace it. In a world governed by violence, her survival depends on becoming more dangerous than the men who stole her freedom. Blood Debt is a high-stakes race where the cost of liberty is paid in fire and vengeance.

The Master's Weakness

In a game of digital shadows, the most dangerous move is falling in love.

• Romance
• Thriller

Lyra Belmonte is the best black-hat hacker in the business, but even she didn't see the endgame coming. When she's abducted and confined to a high-tech subterranean bunker, she finds herself at the mercy of Julian Sterling-Vane. Once a world-renowned chess grandmaster, Julian is now a disgraced ghost, living in the shadows after being framed for a crime he didn't commit. He needs Lyra’s skills to infiltrate a government shadow agency and erase his past. But in Julian’s world, every interaction is a calculated move, and Lyra is the queen he refuses to lose. As the days of isolation turn into a psychological battle of wills, the lines between captor and prisoner begin to blur. Beneath the cold exterior of a strategist, Lyra discovers a man haunted by a conspiracy larger than both of them. When a ruthless cleaner from a secret organization called The Sector closes in, Lyra realizes the bunker isn't just a prison—it’s a sanctuary. Trapped between a man who stole her freedom and an enemy who wants her dead, Lyra must decide if she’s playing a game she can win, or if the ultimate checkmate requires surrendering her heart. In this dark, high-stakes thriller, the only way out is to play along.