Ava Carter is the pride of her university — a brilliant cybersecurity student about to graduate as the top of her class. Smart, loyal, and kind-hearted, she believes her future is finally falling into place, especially with Ethan Blake, the man she loves and trusts with her whole heart.But love can be the most dangerous weakness.When Ethan begs Ava to help him save his dying mother, she makes a decision that will change her life forever. Using her extraordinary hacking skills, Ava breaks into Walton Technologies and transfers $30 million into Ethan’s account, believing she is saving a life.What she doesn’t know is that Ethan has been lying from the very beginning.On the night of her graduation, Ava’s world shatters when Ethan publicly humiliates her and reveals his true intentions. The man she trusted never loved her — he only used her talent to steal from his former best friend.Chris Walton.Ruthless, powerful, and the billionaire CEO of Walton Technologies.Haunted by guilt and terrified of the consequences of her crime, Ava does the unthinkable — she walks into Walton Technologies and confesses everything to the man she betrayed.Instead of sending her to prison, Chris Walton offers her a dangerous deal.Now Ava is trapped in a world of power, secrets, and desire… bound to the ruthless CEO whose life she nearly destroyed.But the deeper she falls into Chris’s world, the more she realizes one terrifying truth:Some debts cannot be repaid with money.And some men are far more dangerous to the heart than they are to the law.