Elena Brooks didn’t sell her soul for money.She sold it for her sister’s life.When cold-hearted billionaire Alessandro Rossi offers her a way out of insurmountable debt, one year as his contract wife, she has no choice but to sign. One bed. Brutal rules. Total surrender. In exchange: five million dollars and protection from the enemies her father betrayed.But Sandro Rossi is no ordinary billionaire.He is the ruthless Don of the Rossi Syndicate, a man who takes what he wants and destroys what he can’t control.Now trapped in his opulent penthouse, Elena finds herself at the mercy of a predator. Every lingering stare makes her pulse race. Every deliberate touch sets her skin on fire. Every whispered command strips away another piece of her resistance. The more she fights his dominance, the more shamefully she craves it.As dangerous rivals close in and deadly secrets rise from the past, Elena realizes the real threat isn’t the contract.It’s the monster who’s slowly claiming her body… and stealing her heart.Some deals are written in ink.Theirs was sealed in blood, lust, and obsession.And once Sandro Rossi decides a woman belongs to him…He never lets her go.

Elena Vale spent four years shrinking herself for the man who called it love. The night she walked in on her husband buried inside her closest friend, every soft, obedient version of her died.She did not cry. She did not beg. She went looking for the one person who had every reason to want the same blood she did.Lucian Kane was supposed to be ordinary. Quiet. Harmless. The perfect weapon. Together they built a pact of calculated destruction, public touches meant to wound, private nights meant to plan, staged intimacy designed only to burn their spouses alive with jealousy.But every shared look lasted too long. Every deliberate brush of skin left fire. Every time Lucian’s control slipped, Elena felt herself falling deeper into a hunger she never planned to feel.She thought she was using an unremarkable man to destroy the life that destroyed her.She had no idea the man she chose as her revenge partner was the most dangerous force in the city, or that the game they started would become the one obsession neither of them could survive without.