“You must’ve got the wrong impression if you think you can get away with things like this,” he says with a calm smile. He leans closer, the warmth in his expression fading into something sharper, more dangerous. “So let me make things clear.” Mileva finally notices the scar across the bridge of his nose, and the faint X-mark etched into his lips—details that should have warned her to step back, not stare longer. Instead, something about him pulls her in deeper, blurring the line between fear and fascination. Eighteen-year-old Mileva never expected her past to catch up with her after leaving for New York City, and she certainly didn’t expect to meet Valen—the Italian Mafia heir. At twenty-three, he is both terrifying and impossibly magnetic, a man who commands attention without trying. As Mileva struggles with her anxiety in this new, dangerous world, Valen grows increasingly comfortable with the obsession she unknowingly awakens in him. Two lives collide—one trying to survive, the other refusing to let go—and neither will emerge unchanged.
