He didn’t just buy my company. He bought me in marriage. And he’s been orchestrating my downfall from the very beginning. I was the golden girl of the Sterling empire until my father and my backstabbing ex-fiancé stripped me of my legacy, threw me to the wolves, and left me with nothing. Broken and looking for a single night of oblivion, I walked into a secluded hotel lounge and fell into the arms of a cold, mesmerizing stranger. A man who possessed a lethal charm and eyes like a winter storm. The next morning, he was gone. Twenty-four hours later, he walked into my father's boardroom. Julian Vance. The ruthless, multi-billionaire acquisitions tycoon who just hostilely took over my family's firm. He’s cold, calculating, and three steps ahead of everyone else in the city. And before the ink on the merger can even dry, he announces our sudden engagement on live television to force my hand. I thought I was playing a dangerous game of fake marriage to get revenge on the family that ruined me. I thought I could use Julian's massive empire as a shield to take back what’s mine. But I was wrong. Julian didn't find me in that lounge by accident. He knew exactly who I was. He knew exactly what my ex did to me. And as a dark, international conspiracy closes in around us, I'm forced to realize that the man sharing my bed isn't just protecting me from the monsters out to destroy me... He might be the most dangerous monster of them all.