He put a ring on her finger. She swore to make him regret it.Audrey Volkov was born into a world where blood meant loyalty, marriage meant business, and a father’s love could look dangerously similar to a prison.For twenty-one years, she lived behind locked gates, protected from the brutal world her family controlled. She was the daughter nobody knew existed, the secret her father guarded more fiercely than his empire.Until Roman Devereux discovered her.Cold. Calculating. Ruthless.Roman doesn’t believe in love, and he has never been a man who accepts no for an answer. When the hidden Volkov daughter steps into his world, he sees an opportunity that could change the balance of power between two dangerous families.Audrey sees a nightmare dressed in an expensive suit.She wants freedom. He wants control.She refuses to bow. He refuses to let her go.But when family secrets begin to unravel and enemies close in from every direction, their forced marriage becomes more than a battle of wills. Every kiss carries a threat. Every promise hides a possibility of betrayal. And every day Audrey spends as Roman’s wife brings her closer to discovering the truth about the man who claims to own her.Roman may have put a ring on her finger.He may have taken away the future she planned for herself.But he has made one fatal mistake.He thinks being her husband gives him the right to possess her.Audrey Volkov is about to teach him the difference between owning a woman and earning her.And if Roman Devereux wants to keep his wife, he will have to survive the one thing he has never learned to fight.A woman who refuses to surrender.In a world built on power, love might be the most dangerous betrayal of all.