Ella Martinez is drowning in student debt and exhaustion when she finds a bleeding stranger in an alley. Every instinct screams at her to run, but her medical training won't let her leave him to die. Big mistake. Adrian Volkov is the heir to a brutal mafia empire, and the men who stabbed him want him dead. Now they know about Ella, and in Adrian's world, mercy is a death sentence. He tells her to run but she refuses. He offers her money to disappear but she stays. He tries to push her away, she pushes back. But when Adrian's own father puts a gun to her head, Adrian makes a choice that will shatter both their lives: he trades his empire for her survival. Now they're hunted by everyone;his family, his enemies, the FBI. Her apartment is a crime scene. Her best friend is traumatized. Her father, who she thought was dead, is actually a prisoner used as bait and she's pregnant. Caught between rival mafia families, a brother's vengeance, and a father's cruelty, Ella and Adrian must decide: keep running forever, or burn it all down and fight for a future neither thought they deserved.

Sophia never expected love when she signed a contract to marry Damien Cross, the ruthless billionaire CEO who needed a convenient wife to secure his inheritance. For three years, she played the perfect wife while falling hopelessly in love with her cold, distant husband. When Damien's first love returns, he divorces Sophia without hesitation, tossing her aside like she meant nothing. Heartbroken and pregnant with his child, Sophia disappears, determined to rebuild her life far from his shadow. Five years later, Sophia has transformed into a successful businesswoman and devoted mother. When fate forces them back together through a major business deal, Damien is stunned by the confident woman she's become, and the child who has his eyes. Consumed by regret, Damien realizes too late that Sophia was the only woman he ever truly loved. Now he'll stop at nothing to win back his ex-wife and reclaim the family he foolishly destroyed. But Sophia has built walls around her heart, and this time, his money and power won't be enough. Can Damien prove he's worthy of a second chance, or has he lost her forever?