To seal a crumbling political alliance between the Voss political dynasty and the Caruso crime empire, twenty-four-year-old Elara Voss is handed over in marriage to Matteo Caruso, a wheelchair-bound Don who rules his empire with terrifying stillness and sharp, calculating eyes that see everything. Elara walks into the Caruso mansion prepared to survive. But survival becomes complicated the moment she meets Damien Caruso– Matteo's younger brother and the empire's Underboss. He is everything Matteo is not on the surface– reckless heat, dangerous charm, and a gaze that strips her bare without permission. What begins as stolen glances and forbidden tension erupts into a fire neither of them can contain. But nothing in the Caruso world is ever what it appears to be. Elara is about to discover that the most dangerous thing in a mafia household isn't the guns. It is the secret everyone agreed to keep before she arrived.