Three women, three brothers, a single, crumpled dollar bill. Alina’s world shatters the moment she’s auctioned off—and claimed by the powerful Hawthorne brothers. Thrown into Adrian Hawthorne’s cold, dangerous world, she becomes his to control… his to protect… and, terrifyingly, his to desire. He’s ruthless, possessive, and hiding secrets that could destroy them both. But the deeper she falls into his world, the harder it becomes to tell if she’s his prisoner—or something far more dangerous.Because the Hawthorne brothers don’t just take.They keep.Viviane has spent her life surviving, so when Julian Hawthorne “buys” her freedom, she knows better than to trust it. Men like him don’t save people—they collect them. But Julian isn’t as simple as he pretends to be, and the deeper she’s pulled into his world, the more dangerous it becomes to walk away. Especially when she realizes she might be the only thing he’s ever been willing to fight for.Lena doesn’t belong to anyone—and she intends to keep it that way. Brilliant, guarded, and hiding more than anyone suspects, she enters Lucien Hawthorne’s world on her own terms. But Lucien doesn’t play fair, and he doesn’t let go. When her past comes crashing back, Lena is forced to face the one thing she’s been running from: trusting someone who could destroy her… or save her.Three women. Three choices.Stay. Fight. Or burn it all down.Because being sold was only the beginning.

Sold to the ruthless, paraplegic Don Cassian Moretti to seal a blood alliance, Belinda Rossi expected duty and distance.Instead, she found a cold, scarred husband who never touches her. He only watches with dark, possessive hunger as she strips and pleasures herself under his commanding gaze, secretly crying his brother’s name.But it’s Rafael Moretti, golden-haired, dangerously gentle, and lethally charming, who sets her on fire. One heated glance leads to a stolen kiss that shatters her control. One drunken night and his fingers and mouth claim her wet, aching body in raw, forbidden ecstasy.Trapped between the ice-cold Capo who owns her by contract and the brother whose touch she craves with desperate, filthy need, Belinda becomes the ultimate prize in a deadly mafia war. Enemies close in, her family betrays her, and blood threatens to drown them all.In a world where loyalty is paid in violence, how long can she survive being bound to the ruthless husband… before she’s utterly claimed by his brother?