Elena Cross was never supposed to fall for the man she was sent to destroy.Ten years ago, she watched her father die on a cold floor while a Kastellan stood over the blood. She never cried. She just waited.Now she walks into House Kastellan as Isolde Varyn, a fabricated heiress bound by marriage to Kael Kastellan, heir to an empire built on blood money and silence. Every secret she uncovers is supposed to bring the family down. Every night beside him makes that harder to want.But the boy who watched her father die that night wasn't a stranger in the shadows. It was Kael, forced into silence long before she ever knew his name.The family raised him to trust no one. NIS built her to feel nothing.Neither expected the truth would come from the people they trusted most.