Elena Martins was poor. Alone. Forgotten. With one year of college left and no money, she thought her life had buried her chances for greatness… until her mother married one of Brazil’s richest billionaires. Now torn from her tiny New York apartment and dropped into a marble mansion in São Paulo, Elena is forced to live beside Eduardo Villa-Lobos—her new stepbrother. Cold, powerful, and dangerously beautiful, Eduardo makes it clear: they’re not family, and she doesn’t belong in his world.Eduardo has everything—wealth, control, women—but he’s never wanted anything as much as he wants her. And wanting her? That breaks every rule. When enemies target their family, when whispers turn to headlines, and when his billion-dollar empire hangs by a thread, Eduardo will stop at nothing to protect her… even if it costs everything.He claimed her with a word. But love isn’t enough when secrets burn, lies multiply, and betrayal comes from the one person she trusts most.Will Elena survive the storm—or will loving Eduardo be the end of them both?