Take off your gown. I want to see what I paid for." Alyssa Hills has spent her entire life fighting for grades, for survival, for her dying mother's next breath. When the billionaire who destroyed her scholarship offers her an obscene bargain marry him, live in his penthouse, be his obedient wife in every sense of the word she tells herself it's a transaction. Cold. Simple. Survivable. She's wrong. Jace Stone doesn't want a wife. He wants something to own. Something to bend. And when he looks at Alyssa like she's both a problem and a prize, she discovers something terrifying about herself a part of her that responds to the darkness in him. A hunger she was taught to bury. A need that shame alone can't kill. She hates him. She aches for him. She's determined to destroy him. But first she has to survive him. This isn't a love story. It's a war. And the most dangerous battles are the ones you fight inside yourself.