She was never meant to be his. Handed over by her own family to seal a debt, she arrives at his door expecting a monster and finds something far more devastating - a man who looks at her like he already owns every secret she has kept hidden.
He has spent his life taking what the family business demands, numb to everything except the next transaction. Then she crosses his threshold with her chin up and her hands shaking, and the game changes. He wants to unravel her. He wants to hear his name break in her throat. He wants to keep her.
Their arrangement begins with signatures and cold terms. It does not stay cold for long. In his bed, she learns what it costs to want the man she should fear. In her arms, he learns that possession cuts both ways - sharp, deep, and impossible to survive intact. The bruises fade. The need does not.
But the world they inhabit has no patience for lovers. Old blood feuds resurface. Allies become liabilities. And the vulnerability they have forged in locked rooms becomes the weapon their enemies were waiting for.
This is a full-length dark mafia erotic romance with an arranged marriage, obsessive desire, and a hero and heroine who may destroy everything they have built - including each other - before the final page.
