She never believed her life would spiral into ruin so quickly. One moment, Elena was juggling two jobs to keep her family afloat. The next, she was drowning in debt, with her mother’s hospital bills threatening to crush her. Desperate and out of options, she walked into the office of the man everyone in the city feared and admired in equal measure.Adrian Blackwood. Billionaire. CEO. A man known for his cold heart and ruthless deals. To him, love was nothing more than a distraction, a weakness he could not afford. He had everything anyone could dream of, yet he needed one thing to secure his empire: a wife.When Adrian offered Elena a contract marriage, she thought it was a cruel joke. One year as his wife in exchange for wealth and security. No love, no emotions, just business. It was supposed to be a transaction, nothing more.But the moment she signed her name, Elena stepped into a world of power, secrets, and temptation. In public, she was the perfect bride on his arm. In private, they clashed like fire and ice. He was infuriating, arrogant, and impossible to read, yet every stolen glance and unguarded moment revealed a man who wasn’t as untouchable as he wanted the world to believe.As enemies circled and jealousy burned, their pretend marriage began to blur into something dangerously real. Elena swore she would never fall for him. Adrian promised his heart was frozen beyond repair.Yet some contracts are made to be broken.

When Isabella wandered into the dark woods, she only wanted to escape her past, not walk straight into another kind of danger. But fate has other plans. The moment she meets Lucian, the mysterious alpha cursed by moonlight and blood, her world begins to unravel. Lucian fights the beast inside him every night, haunted by the sin that bind him to his vengeful brother, Kael. Yet when Isabella's touch eases his pain, he realizes she might be the key to breaking the curse, or the final trigger that destroys them all. As secrets bleed into betrayal and love turns into weapon, Isabella must decide who totrust in a world where every heartbeat could be her last. Because in the cursed alpha's arms, love feels a lot like danger... and she might already be too deep to escape.