▶ Synopsis
Three years ago, Alexei Volkov was given the keys to an auction house.Now he holds the gavel, perfecting a system his father built on fear and rebuilding it on something worse.Control.Beneath a Manhattan club, the Volkov Syndicate runs an auction house where debts don't go to collections, they go to the stage. Names become numbers. Collars replace contracts. And the room full of masked men waiting in the dark have already decided what they're willing to pay.But the Syndicate is more than one man. A brother who delivers debts with his fists and wants what he hasn't earned. A handler who broke on this stage once and now prepares others for the same. And a room full of masked bidders who've learned that in this house, everything has a price.The gavel satisfies the debt. What it costs is something else entirely.
