BLURB. Six months. One secret marriage.  Alessia Bennett is running out of options. After her father’s death, she inherits control of Bennett Luxe Group, a luxury empire drowning in debt, suspicious transactions, and mounting threats. With her family’s legacy on the verge of collapse, Alessia is desperate enough to accept an offer from the one man she should never trust. Damian Sinclair. Billionaire CEO. Powerful businessman. Ruthless criminal and the last man in Miami she would ever choose as a husband. Damian needs a wife for six months to secure a fortune tied to his family’s inheritance. Alessia needs the money and protection necessary to save her company. Their secret marriage appears to be a simple arrangement between two desperate people except Damian did not choose Alessia because she needed him. He chose her because she is a Bennett. For years, Damian has believed Alessia’s family played a role in the downfall of his father. His plan is simple: marry her, gain access to the Bennett empire, uncover its secrets, destroy everything her family has built, and discard her when he is finished but living under the same roof changes things neither of them expected. Arguments become attraction. Suspicion becomes obsession and the woman Damian intended to destroy becomes the one person capable of reaching the part of him he buried years ago. Then Alessia discovers the truth. Her marriage was never built on trust. Damian studied her family before approaching her, manipulated her circumstances, and intended to use her before destroying everything she loved. The betrayal shatters their marriage but it also opens the door to a much older mystery. Because the war between the Sinclairs and Bennetts did not begin with Damian and Alessia.Decades earlier, their fathers uncovered traces of a secret network known as the Meridian Circle, an organization connecting powerful families, criminal financiers, corporations, and influential figures across generations. At the center of the conspiracy lies the Black Ledger, a hidden archive containing the secrets powerful people would kill to keep buried. And Damian may have spent his entire life seeking revenge against the wrong family.