Hazel Dawson has a crazy past, she’s called the wealthiest billionaire a crazy bastard to his face without knowing. When the company she’s working for suddenly gets sold to the youngest but ruthless businessman in the city- Xavier Steele- known for his crazy unpredictable ways, Hazel has no choice but to bear it and accept his overbearing requests as his secretary. But one night, when Xavier gets wounded after saving Hazel from an armed gunman,Hazel learns that her Boss might not be all that he looks like on the surface. In a two confined offices located at the top of the building separate from several workers, Roses bloom but thorns follow. Just when love seems within reach, Hazel is accused of stealing confidential contracts. With whispers of betrayal, a haunting past, and a string of murders circling the company, Hazel must clear her name—and her heart. Can Hazel prove that she did not steal the company’s contracts for personal gain? Will Xavier look past his nagging belief of the wealthy belong together and go back to his ex? And with the increasing murders that keep getting tied to the company as the common denominator, what does this evil-doer hiding in the shadows aim to achieve?

Camille Ortiz inherited her father's bakery — and the debt that came with it. She never knew the loan he signed nine years ago belonged to the most feared family in Chicago. When Damian Rossi, the Rossi Don, comes to collect what's owed, he doesn't want her money. He wants her name bound to his — a marriage to end a war between two dynasties neither of them chose. Trapped behind the walls of the Rossi estate, Camille learns that the man the city whispers about in fear is not the man who sits across from her at breakfast, silent and haunted by something he won't name. But as the ice between them melts into something neither of them can control, a shadow inside Damian's own family begins pulling strings that could end them both — and expose the truth about the night her father really died. Can Camille survive a marriage built on threats long enough to find out if what's growing inside it is real? And when the enemy turns out to be the one man Damian trusted most, will loyalty or love win?