She buried her mother on Monday. By Friday, she was married to the man her father wanted dead. Eighteen-year-old Bella Harlow spent her whole life believing her father died before she was born. She was wrong. He's alive — and he's the head of one of Chicago's most dangerous crime families. With her mother gone and nothing left but debt, Bella has no choice but to step into a world of blood, wealth, and power she never knew existed. Then her father makes his price clear: marry Luca Romano, the rival don whose family has been at war with theirs for years — or lose everything, including her life. Luca Romano doesn't do gentle. He doesn't do mercy. What he does is claim what's his — completely, permanently, with a contract clause that leaves her no room to refuse him anything. Body. Bed. Every breath, until she gives him an heir. She hates him. She hates that she wants him more. But the peace between their families was never as settled as it looked. As danger closes in from within Bella's own bloodline, she starts to see the man behind the monster — and to wonder if the biggest threat to her safety was ever really the man she married at all. Some men take a bride. Luca Romano took a wife he'll do anything to keep.