Emma Blake never thought survival would look like this. Burning through college degrees she can’t afford to use, scraping by on cafeteria tips, and carrying the weight of her younger brother’s future on her shoulders. With their mother gone and their father long out of the picture, it’s just the two of them against the world. And right now, the world is winning. When she stumbles across a job opening at one of New York’s top tech firms, she applies out of pure desperation. No fancy connections. No corporate polish. Just a résumé full of student loans and a heart running on fumes. She doesn’t expect to get hired. She doesn’t expect her new boss to be Damien Cross. Billionaire. CEO. Infamous for his cold precision and lack of patience. Their first meeting is anything but professional. She doesn’t know who he is, and he assumes she’s lost. When the truth comes out, neither of them is thrilled. Emma’s only goal is to keep the job, stay out of trouble, and earn enough to survive. But Damien doesn’t make that easy. He’s sharp, unreadable, and seems almost... fascinated by her. And as the days pass, the tension between them blurs into something reckless, magnetic, and dangerously close to unraveling everything Emma’s been fighting to protect.

After witnessing her father’s brutal murder, Ayla Moreno disappears into a new identity, hoping to leave behind the blood-soaked legacy of the mafia life. But fate drags her back in when she’s placed under the protection of the De Rossi family, the most feared mafia dynasty in New York. Everyone says Luca De Rossi is the last person she should get close to. Still, he is the one she keeps coming back to. Their connection is instant, tense, and impossible to escape. But when Nico Salazar, her former protector and the only man who knows what happened the night her father died, resurfaces, everything falls apart. Entangled with the devil she can't resist and the liar who might just be her last chance at freedom, Ayla finds herself tethered to a world she swore she’d never return to. Will love be able to save her?.