Sofia Marlowe owes a debt she can't pay. Dominic Vale, the billionaire head of the city's most feared crime family, offers her a way out: marry him for one year and keep his enemies fooled. No love. No touching. No questions.But Dominic is possessive, dangerous, and impossible to ignore, and Sofia is far less obedient than he expected. As secrets surface, rivals close in, and a traitor hides inside the house, the marriage of convenience becomes the one thing neither of them can afford to lose

Seraphina Cole is an accountant with a spotless record and a dying father's hospital debt. Then she discovers her late employer's books were hiding something: a name that links her family to the most powerful crime family in the city.Dante Moretti, the family's cold, calculating heir, needs one thing to keep his empire from collapsing: a legal wife. Seraphina holds the only paperwork that can prove his claim. His offer is simple. One year of marriage on paper, her father's bills erased, and her safety guaranteed.She signs. But a contract can't control what happens when two people forced to pretend begin to feel the truth. As rivals circle and the ledger's secrets unravel, Seraphina must decide whether she's his wife, his weapon, or his way out.Will she be protected by the name she took, or destroyed by the one she was born with?