The night Seraphina Sterling's family was massacred, she became the most hunted woman in Nova Verona. Her crime? She carries the last Sterling Gift — the power to nullify any supernatural ability with a single touch. In a city ruled by four ancient bloodlines who wield their powers like weapons, she is the only person who can reduce them all to ordinary men and women. Every house wants her dead. Or worse — under their control. Lucian Vance is the cold-eyed king of the most powerful bloodline empire. His Gravity Dominion can crush a man where he stands, but raw power can't stop the knives aimed at his back by his own family. He doesn't need another soldier. He needs a weapon no one sees coming. His solution? A contract marriage. She gets his army to hunt down the people who slaughtered her family. He gets her touch to destroy anyone who threatens his throne. The terms are ironclad: no feelings, no loyalty beyond the contract, and absolutely no falling in love. But Seraphina's touch doesn't just break powers. It heals wounds no one else can see — and Lucian is carrying more scars than anyone knows. Every strategic touch, every accidental brush of her fingers against his skin, pulls them deeper into something neither of them planned. She survived a massacre. She might not survive him.