After being betrayed by her fiancé and half-sister, who stole her inheritance and left her to die in a staged car accident, Lyra returns with one goal: destruction. To execute her plan, she approaches Ethan Vance, the most feared billionaire investor in the country and her ex-fiancé’s deadliest corporate rival. Lyra proposes a ruthless business arrangement a fake marriage in exchange for giving Ethan the insider access he needs to dismantle her ex’s company. Ethan agrees, but under one condition: she must belong to him completely, both in public and behind closed doors. As they dismantle her enemies piece by piece, Lyra discovers that Ethan isn’t just playing along for corporate gain. He has been waiting in the shadows for years, waiting for the chance to claim her as his wife.

I always believed monsters only existed in bedtime stories until one rainy night changed my life forever. I witnessed something I was never supposed to see. Instead of killing me, the devil chose me. Everyone says he has no heart. Everyone says he destroys everything he touches. Everyone says falling in love with him is the same as signing your own death warrant. They were right. Because every time he looked at me, I forgot whether I wanted to run or stay. His obsession became my prison. His protection became my only safety. Somewhere between blood, lies, betrayal, and revenge, I realized the man everyone feared was fighting a war inside himself. The devil chose me. I just never expected I would choose him too.