Three years ago, the third most powerful mafia family in the country was slaughtered in a single night. Every member was executed without mercy… except one.Tiana. The bastard daughter no one cared enough to kill.Spared not out of kindness, but cruelty, she is dragged away as a captive and forced to endure three years of brutality at the hands of her family’s murderers, until the vibrant girl she once was disappears completely, leaving behind a mute, obedient girl.When her captors finally grow tired of her, she is disguised as a frail boy to increase her value and is thrown into an underground auction to be sold as damaged property.Marcus Valceri, a powerful mafia boss, had no interest in buying human property that night. He only raised his paddle because his girlfriend whimsically wanted the “pretty mute boy” as a birthday gift. But under the surface, he is interested in this boy himself.The very night Tiana stepped into the Valcieri estate, she wandered into a forbidden room to find a man who had been unconscious for nearly a year. A man doctors had declared would never wake again.Don Demetri Valcieri. The most feared heir of the Valceri empire. The true devil of the underworld. A man who punishes and kills without mercy.Perhaps out of foolishness or curiosity, Tiana touches him. At just her touch, the man wakes, and the first thing his dark eyes see after months of darkness is her. Demetri becomes fixated on the quiet, fragile “boy” who woke him from the darkness, and he buys Tiana from his brother for ten times the original price.What begins as curiosity quickly turns into a a dark obsession. Now marked by the ruthless man known to never accept refusal, Tiana must survive his growing obsession while guarding her biggest secret.But the longer she stays within his clutches, the harder it becomes to maintain her disguise. If he discovers the truth, there is no telling whether he will protect her… or ruin her completely for deceiving him.Forced into the world of this ruthless devils, Tiana must decide.Are the two devils who bought her, her destruction…or her only hope at salvation?Though she doubts it is the latter

"I want a divorce, Myra."For six years, Myra Mayfield devoted herself to her husband, believing that love and loyalty would eventually be enough.Instead, Vincent Cross shatters her world with five devastating words.Not only does he demand a divorce, but he reveals that the woman Myra believed was his sister is actually his fiancée. Worse still, Janice is pregnant with his child.Humiliated and heartbroken, Myra walks away from the marriage that stole her youth and her confidence.One reckless night at Seattle's most exclusive nightclub leads her into the arms of billionaire biker Jade Dantrix, a powerful CEO whose dangerous charm awakens feelings she thought had died long ago.