November Paige is a woman running from a brutal mafia past — and from Dimitri Romanov, the sadistic ex-fiancé who once owned her life. She wants peace, anonymity, and a chance to study medicine. Instead, fate delivers her into the hands of Killian Russ, the dangerously powerful and emotionally complex heir to a rival mafia empire. Killian owes a blood-debt to November’s father, who once saved his life as a child. And Killian is a man who always pays his debts… even if paying them means claiming November entirely. November Paige spent years trying to outrun her past—her violent mafia ex-fiancé, the bullets, the blood, the trauma. All she wanted was a quiet life, anonymity, and a chance to breathe. But the world she escaped doesn’t forgive. It hunts. Killian Russ is the heir to a brutal empire and a man forged in betrayal and blood. Cold, calculated, possessive, and dangerously loyal, he has only two goals: destroy his father’s reign… and eliminate anyone who threatens what he claims. When a debt owed to November’s father resurfaces, Killian takes her under his protection—only protection with Killian never comes without ownership.