He didn’t want my money. He wanted the one thing I had left to give: my soul. My life was a symphony of structure. The rough drag of a bow against a string. The sharp, bitter scent of rosin dust. The stinging ache in my calloused fingertips after a four-hour rehearsal. I was Elena Ricci, the rising star of the Philharmonic, until my father’s greed turned my music into a death knell. He stole five million dollars from the wrong man. Dante Moretti. They call him "The Shark of Wall Street." He doesn't have a heart; he has a ledger. He doesn't see people; he sees assets to be liquidated. And now, he sees me. When Dante walked into my dressing room, he didn’t bring the police. He brought a contract. A cold, clinical alternative to my father’s life behind bars. The deal? I move into his glass-and-steel penthouse. I wear the diamonds that feel like cold shackles. I play my cello for him at midnight to drown out the noise in his head. And for six months, I pretend to be the woman who tamed the beast. He wants to own my talent. He wants to control my every breath. He thinks he can buy the silence he craves. But as the line between his corporate war and our private passion begins to blur, I realize the Shark isn't just hungry for my debt. He’s hungry for me. And in his world, the only thing more dangerous than a debt unpaid... is a heart under contract. "Sign the paper, Elena," he whispered, his breath smelling of expensive scotch and cold ambition. "Or watch the life you love burn. The choice is yours. The alternative is mine." Why thi

He bought her to play a role. He never intended to keep her. "I don't sell my body. I only sell the fantasy." To the world, Valorie Cross is just a struggling woman fighting a losing battle against the state for custody of her late sister’s two children. But in the shadows of the city’s most exclusive club, she is "Vixen"—a masked dancer who captivates men without ever letting them touch her. Cassian Drax is a ruthless corporate king with a heart of ice and a public image that needs cleaning. He doesn't want love; he wants an asset. When he discovers Valorie’s secret identity, he offers her a deal she can’t refuse: become his perfect, respectable wife for three years in exchange for the money and power to save her family. The rules of their contract are simple. Be the perfect Mrs. Drax in public. Stay out of his way in private. Keep the mask of the dutiful wife firmly in place. But as they live together in his gilded fortress, the lines between business and desire blur. Valorie sees the loneliness behind Cassian’s cold stare, and Cassian becomes obsessed with the fire beneath Valorie’s polished exterior. Just as the contract begins to feel like a real marriage, a scandal from her past threatens to destroy everything. Accused of betrayal and cast out by the man she started to love, Valorie disappears—taking a secret with her that will change Cassian’s life forever. He thought he could buy a wife. He didn't realize he would have to beg to get her back.