“If you want to play by your rules, Sebastian, don't be surprised when I start winning." Sarafina was the trophy wife of the year. For seven years, she endured the cold bed, the perfume on his shirts, and the public humiliation of Asher’s endless flings. But when he suggests an "open marriage" to justify his latest mistress, Sarafina finally snaps. She doesn't want a divorce. She wants a debt he can never repay. In a moment of wine-soaked rage, she orders a call boy-a man with eyes like frozen iron and a body built for sin. She treats him like a transaction, leaves the cash on the bedside table, and disappears. She thought she’d balanced the scales. She was wrong. At her husband’s high-stakes gala, she meets the man he’s been desperately trying to close a deal with. It isn't a call boy. It’s Sebastian Vane. The most ruthless billionaire, a man known for destroying lives with a single phone call, and the man her husband now owes everything to. Sebastian corners her in the dark, his smirk dangerous and his voice a low, terrifying crawl: "A call boy, Sarafina? You really thought my price was that cheap?" Now, Sarafina is caught between a husband who wants to own her and a predator who wants to ruin her. And Sebastian doesn't just want his money back-he wants the heir she’s carrying.

He married her for power. She married him for survival. Neither one knew that love was the most dangerous aspect of the bargain. The Russian mafia is a brutal world where loyalty is bought and trust is a death sentence where weakness is not forgiven.All her life, Elena Petrova, Russian princess has been learning to survive a world run by lethal men. Raised within one of the most dreaded Bratva families. But Elena has refused to be a pawn to anyone. The instant she falls into a political marriage with the heir of a notorious Italian mafia empire, Luca Rossi, the only path that seems plausible for her and her family in order to avoid utter devastation. Cold. Calculating. Untouchable. Luca Rossi cultivated a reputation of fear long before he inherited his family’s empire in Italy.Elena Petrova was just another part of the deal. Or so he thought. The moment that Elena entered his life, she refused to obey him, to break, and to be the wife he had imagined her to be. Instead, she challenges him at every turn: she is anything but a timid wife, and their contrasting fiery personalities have begun to create sparks he never imagined could exist between them. Then enemies began to move in on Elena’s life, endangering her and bringing dangerous secrets into light that could very well destroy both their families. It is then that Luca finds himself doing something he has never done before: Protecting her. The coldly orchestrated arranged marriage began to turn into something much more dangerous as unspoken passion grew between them amidst the heated arguments and constant betrayals. The closer they are getting, the more impossible it is for Luca to tell the difference between loyalty and desire. Love is no longer just an expense; it’s a luxury. It’s a liability. A liability that could get you killed. Entangled in love, revenge, and family expectations that Luca and Elena simply cannot escape, the two lovers will have to choose how far they are willing to go to risk it all.