"Why me and not someone from your world who already know how to play this game.""Because you have no connections to my circle, no ambitions beyond this contract and a reason to stay exactly within the terms." Valentina Rossi is one signature away from saving her dying mother and Leonadro Monte, her cold billoniare boss who needs a wife to close a two billion deal is the only man with both the means and a reason to help her.Their business arrangement becomes a battlefield of cold commands and stolen glances, of rules that bend in the dark, and a chemistry neither of them agreed to admit.But when a devastating secret from his own empire begins to unravel, it changes from his billion dollar contract on the line to a secret that could shatter him completely.