Some lies can't be tolerated. All Merry Tamlin wanted was a night off. Just one. But while she's gone, a lethal designer drug is smuggled into the Blue Moon, leaving a body in its wake. When that doesn't close the club, the man behind it escalates matters. Now Damien is behind bars. Merry, injured, exhausted, and very much not a lawyer, is the only thing standing between the nightclub which has become the center of her world and the power of the Orbitals. She can't win this in a fair fight. Good thing it isn't one. Payback is a tense, emotionally charged cyberpunk thriller about calculated vengeance, rigged systems, and the brutal cost of holding the line.