My new billionaire patron is hell-bent on revenge, and I'm his target. Kaelan Crowe thinks I'm just a struggling artist he can manipulate and break. He doesn't know I've already uncovered his entire plan. The game changed when his enemies forced my car off the road. He emerged from the shadows like an avenging angel, a gun in his hand, and declared to the world, "She belongs to me." Now, a shadowy syndicate wants me dead, and my only protection is the devil I know. Kaelan’s revenge is the least of my problems. To survive, we must form an alliance. I have to pretend to be his, willingly, until the threat is neutralized. But the performance is becoming reality. His protectiveness is no longer an act, and the fire between us is all too real. We're digging into a past that doomed both our families, and the truth is more dangerous than any lie. One wrong move, and we'll both be ruined. He thought he was the hunter. I was just the bait. But in this deadly game of power and passion, the rules are about to be rewritten.

His offer was a gilded cage. Her expertise, the key to his vengeance. Alessandro Moretti, a billionaire haunted by betrayal, imprisons brilliant art conservator Isabella Rossi. Forced to authenticate a forged masterpiece, she uncovers a secret tied to his mother's legacy — a secret his rivals are willing to kill to expose. Now, Isabella holds the truth that could shatter Alessandro's world. But in a game of art and vengeance, is she the pawn, the player, or the final sacrifice? He imprisoned her to uncover a forgery, but the greatest deception is the one he's hiding in his own heat. Alessandro Moretti is a billionaire forged in betrayal. To expose a billion-dollar forgery, he takes what he needs: Isabella Rossi, a brilliant art conservator. He imprisons her in his luxurious villa, a gilded cage where her anxiety is a constant hum beneath the opulent silence. But Isabella sees the haunted man behind his steel-grey eyes—a prisoner of his own past. Their battle of wills ignites an all-consuming fire. The captor becomes the captivated as their forced proximity explodes into intensely spicy encounters that challenge his control and her resolve. As enemies close in, Alessandro faces an impossible truth: the woman he forced to trust him is the only one who can set him free. But is her heart a price she’s willing to pay for liberty?