“You have five seconds to decide, sign the contract and she walks out unharmed — Refuse and you'll find out how creative I can get with the alternative.” Sloane Ashford’s life was perfect until her father, Vance Ahsford gambled away the entire Ashford legacy in a single night to the ruthless Delvecchio syndicate. To save his own skin from a mafia bullet, he put up his only daughter as collateral. The terms were simple. Sloane would marry the city's most terrifying monster—Antonio Delvecchio. Sloane flees from the Ashford’s Estate into a freezing storm refusing to be a lamb led to slaughter for her father's sin. But her flight ends before it truly begins as she runs straight into the path of the devil himself. She's captured, drugged and dragged to the Delvecchio’s Empire where she's forced to sign her marriage contract. But the debt was never the real reason he came for her. Antonio wants something only she carries, something her mother hid long before Sloane ever knew there was a price on her head. She vows to hate him for the rest of her life and take revenge. But as long-buried secrets about her mother's past begin to surface, Sloane uncovers a truth more terrifying than her marriage: she isn't just Antonio's captive. She's being hunted by someone far worse, and the ruthless Don who put a leash around her neck might be the only thing standing between her and the grave. He took her for revenge. Will he keep her for love?