**She came to curate his art. He planned to destroy her bloodline**. When struggling art curator Sophia Vale wins the career-making contract to restore reclusive billionaire Alexander Cross's private collection, she thinks she's finally caught her break. What she doesn't know? She's the daughter of the man who destroyed Alexander's family twenty years ago, and he's been waiting for revenge. Alexander never forgave her father for the betrayal that cost him everything. Now fate has delivered the perfect weapon: the daughter who doesn't even know her father's sins. He'll keep her close, control her career, and when the time is right, he'll use her to settle old debts. But Sophia isn't the naive girl he expected. She's brilliant, defiant, and sees through his perfect facade to the broken man beneath. Every late night in his penthouse gallery, every heated argument over priceless paintings, every accidental touch pulls them deeper into dangerous territory. When Alexander discovers documents that could destroy them both, proof that Sophia is the rightful heir to half his empire, he faces an impossible choice. Expose the truth and lose her forever. Or bury the secret and lose himself. By the time he realizes revenge has turned to obsession, and obsession to something far more terrifying, it's too late. He's fallen for the one woman he swore to destroy.