Valentina Moretti had always been her father’s pride and joy. The cherished daughter of one of the most influential families in Italy, she was raised in a world where loyalty came before love, power was everything and family secrets were worth dying for. To her father she was the one thing he could never afford to lose.Nikolai Volkov, the ruthless head of the Russian Bratva, knew that.For decades the Morettis and the Volkovs had been locked in a ruthless war, leaving behind nothing but bloodshed and broken alliances, Both families waited for the perfect opportunity to strike. Nikolai found his. He didn’t burn their empire to the ground.He took the one thing they cherished.HER. Dragged into the Russian Territory, Valentina becomes a prisoner in Nikolai’s world of unimaginable wealth, ruthless violence and carefully guarded secrets. She vows to hate the man who stole her freedom, while Nikolai sees her as nothing but the perfect weapon to break his oldest enemy.But revenge has a way of blurring the lines between hatred and desire.As old betrayals come to light, Valentina and Nikolai begin to uncover the dark truths that fueled the war between their families. The deeper they dig into the past, the more they realize they have been living a lie. Someone has been pulling the strings all along, turning two powerful families against each other for decades.With danger closing in from all sides. Valentina and Nikolai must decide whether to remain enemies……or stand together against the one enemy who has been watching from the shadows all along.Because sometimes the deadliest enemy isn’t the one standing in front of you—it’s the one who made sure you never stopped looking at each other.