Don't hide yourself from me, Little bug. I want to see,” he says, his voice breathless and uneven as he gently pulls my legs apart.“This is wrong, you're my doctor,” I whisper.He chuckles, a sound as dark as a bottomless pit, making my stomach quiver. “Then you don't need to pay for this service,” he says, sliding his thumb inside me. “I need to examine this.”A year ago, Magdalene was a novice nun, shielded from the dangers of the outside world. That peaceful sanctuary shattered the night her mother was brutally murdered. She was shot seven times in the head and her father was wrongfully convicted of the crime. Left with nothing, she became an unpaid servant to her ruthless guardians, enduring their darkest cruelties just to keep a roof over her head and save her eight-year-old brother, Danny, who is living with a failing heart.To make matters worse, her godmother's son, the man she was promised to who seemed to be her only ticket out of misery betrays her. Not only is he sleeping with her guardian’s daughter, but he’s bragging to his entire circle that he is only marrying Magdalene out of pity, and respect for his mother, vowing to be her first everything.Blinded by sudden rage, Magdalene decides she won’t let him win. In a crowded train station, she recklessly throws herself at a dangerous, breathtaking stranger, sealing her lips against his to strip her fiancé of the one thing he felt entitled to.She thought she’d never see him again.But days later, she walks into the hospital for Danny’s pre- surgery checkup, only to find the very same man standing there in a white coat.Damian wanted nothing to do with anyone asides his younger brother. Having messed up irreversibly in the past, he believes he is entirely beyond redemption. As the ruthless leader of the city's biggest Mafia syndicate, it’s a surprise even to his enemies that he is also a brilliant cardiologist. His cold, dark life had no meaning—filled only with guns, blood, death, and syringes—until a petite ex-nun kissed him at a train station and sparked a dangerous obsession.Now, as a toxic, forbidden temptation blurs the lines between right and wrong, the heavy secrets of the past begin to unravel. Her mother's true killer is still out there or even closer than she thought, and the monstrous world Magdalene ran from is the exact one Damian rules. When their dark realities collide, it might just tear them both apart.