She was handed over as payment. He was never supposed to keep her. When Elise Moreau is forced into the penthouse of ruthless underground king Dante Voss, she expects cruelty. What she gets is something worse, his complete attention. Dante doesn’t raise his voice. He doesn’t need to. He simply rearranges her world until the only safe place left is inside the cage he’s built around her. Thirty days. That’s the deal. Obey, and her sister stays alive. Disobey, and everything she has left disappears. But Elise isn’t as breakable as she looks. She has a quiet mouth, a stubborn spine, and a habit of saying the wrong thing at the worst possible time. And the more she refuses to fall apart, the more Dante’s careful control begins to crack. He was supposed to use her. She was supposed to hate him. Instead, secrets start bleeding through the walls, a dead boy in an old photograph, a woman from Dante’s past who smiles like a knife, and a message that says he’s going to kill her when he learns the full truth about her father. In a world where love looks a lot like possession, Elise is about to find out that the most dangerous thing Dante Voss can do… is start caring.