She was supposed to be dead. Seven years ago, Aria Moretti vanished the night her entire mafia family was slaughtered in a coordinated massacre that shook New York to its core. The world mourned the loss of the Moretti empire. Her enemies celebrated. Everyone assumed the sheltered nineteen-year-old princess had burned with the rest of them. They were wrong. Aria survived pregnant, alone, and running for her life. She fled to Lagos, gave birth in hiding, and spent seven years becoming someone her father never allowed her to be: dangerous. Now she’s back. Not for closure. Not for peace. For revenge. But the moment she steps foot in Manhattan, she collides with the one man she never expected to see again Dante Russo, the soldier she loved and was forced to betray to survive. He’s no longer the loyal soldier from her father’s organization. He’s a self-made billionaire by day and the city’s most powerful crime lord by night. Ruthless. Untouchable. Still devastatingly attractive. And he’s never forgiven her for disappearing. He should kill her for what he thinks she did. Instead? He demands she marry him. Not for love for survival. Dante needs a wife to legitimize his expansion into international markets. Aria needs his protection and access to his network to hunt her family’s killer. Six months. One contract. No feelings. No lies. Except Aria is hiding the biggest lie of all: Luca her six-year-old son with Dante’s eyes and smile. The child he never knew existed. The secret that will either bind them together or destroy them completely. As they navigate forced proximity, assassination attempts, and an attraction that never died, one truth becomes clear: someone powerful orchestrated the Moretti massacre and is determined to finish what they started. With a traitor in Dante’s organization, a jealous ex-lover plotting sabotage, and Vincent Carozza Aria’s godfather and the man she suspects killed her family closing in, Aria and Dante must decide: Can they trust each other enough to survive? Or will the lies they’ve built their marriage on destroy them before their enemies get the chance?