Athena Luciana Bianchi was raised to be lethal. Daughter of a notorious assassin and feared for her brilliance as much as her ruthlessness, she has spent her entire life proving that hesitation is weakness. Beautiful, calculating, and utterly dangerous, Athena takes what she wants without apology. Lorenzo Vincelli rules the most powerful Italian mafia in the world. Feared by enemies and respected by allies, he was born into power and built an empire people would kill to possess. Cold-hearted, strategic, and impossible to control, Lorenzo has never met anyone capable of challenging him—until her. When a rising American mafia begins threatening Lorenzo’s empire, cracks start forming in the foundation he spent years building. Desperate to stop everything from collapsing, he’s forced to seek help from the one family he hates most. Unfortunately for him, that means dealing with Athena Bianchi. From the moment they meet, tension ignites into something explosive. They clash over power, control, and pride, each refusing to surrender to the other. But as enemies close in and betrayal lurks around every corner, the line between hatred and obsession begins to blur. Because some wars aren’t won with bullets. Some are won through temptation. And loving the wrong person may be the most dangerous weakness of all.
