Vivienne Cole has spent three years quietly destroying herself to keep her father’s debt from swallowing what remains of their family. Then a letter arrives on a Tuesday, printed on paper heavy as a warning, sealed in black wax, and signed by the most dangerous man in New York City. Caius Voss does not ask. He summons. And when Vivienne walks into his office on the fifty seventh floor with a speech about payment plans and partial settlements, she discovers that he did not acquire her father’s four point seven million dollar debt because he needed the money. He has never needed the money. He needed her. The arrangement is simple. Twelve months as his fake fiancee. All debts discharged on the day she signs. Vivienne tells herself it is a transaction. Clean, temporary and survivable. She is wrong on every count. Caius Voss is a man built out of loss and held together by control. He has one rule that has never failed him: never want anything you cannot replace. Vivienne Cole is the first thing in his life that cannot be replaced, and he knows it from the moment she walks into his office and refuses to flinch under his stare. That should have been reason enough to let her go. Instead he signed the contract too. Twelve months. One secret he cannot tell her. One woman from his past who will not stay in it. And a truth about her father’s debt that will destroy everything they have built, if she finds out the wrong way. She is going to find out. He bought her silence. She stole his heart. Now someone is going to have to pay.