Emery Hayes thought she understood fear—until the night she was taken. Now she’s trapped inside the gilded cage of James Romano, the infamous mafia leader whose power is whispered about across the city. Cold, calculating, unstoppable—James built an empire by never losing control. Then Emery enters his world… and becomes the one weakness he can’t afford. She shouldn’t affect him. She shouldn’t matter. But every time she defies him, every time she trembles beneath his gaze, something inside him fractures—pulling him dangerously close to the edge he’s sworn never to cross. “Do you think you can run from me?” he demands, his voice low and lethal as he steps toward her. She wants to fight him. She wants to fear him. But the more she learns about the man behind the legend, the harder it becomes to see him as the monster everyone claims he is. Caught between danger and desire, Emery must decide whether James is her captor… or the only man capable of saving her when the real threat comes knocking. Because in James’s world, protection and possession look the same— and love is just another thing he can’t control. A dark, emotional captive romance where power collides with vulnerability, and one wrong move could shatter them both.
