Outrunning My Stolen Destiny

"Sign the transfer." The magistrate's voice barely carried over the roar of the atmospheric turbines outside as he slammed the papers down. Just like that, my sister Bexali struck a deal to trade me the sickly, arrogant scholar Varek Lusk, claiming Caldor, my seemingly humble fiancé, for herself. Bexali thinks she’s saving our district by controlling Caldor - the secret heir to the ruthless Jin fortune who destroyed our home in her past life. But her desperate, toxic greed is about to push him into illegal, explosive ignis-vapor smuggling that will ruin them both. I’m just trying to survive. Varek and I have hated each other since our days at the aero-academy, and everyone expects his failing lungs to give out in a month. But beneath my quiet, socially anxious exterior, I'm simply too stubborn to let my rival die. When a syndicate hit-squad kicks down our door, I realize Varek is on the verge of a kinetic breakthrough. If I can physically tackle him before he makes the fatal mistake of testing his volatile prototype on himself, we might just survive. Can two hyper-competitive nerds outrun a city of assassins and become billionaires before Bexali’s stolen empire detonates?