Merlí Fernand was handed over to a brothel to pay off her father's millionaire debt. However, she never imagined that the European mafia's greatest and most imposing boss would save her from that nefarious fate. Maximiliano Fisterra is his true name, but everyone knows him as "Bayá," the coldest and most calculating man that could exist, and who, after being left at the altar by the woman he loved, decides to stop believing in love. Nevertheless, the uncomfortable and bothersome condition set by his father to inherit the mafia leads him to seek a wife by contract. But he never imagined that she would be a cunning and stubborn woman, as well as beautiful and dominant as he is. What will happen between two poles that detest each other to death? Could it be that with them, one could truly say that "from hate to love, there is only one step"? Discover it in the heated and passionate story of Merlí and... Maximiliano Fisterra.