The night her brother's transplant was frozen, Madison Hopper slapped the most powerful man in New York in front of his entire board.By morning, the video had forty million views.By noon, Damian King had made her an offer. Marry him for six months. Smile for the cameras. Give him an heir through IVF. In return, her brother lives, every bill vanishes, and she walks away rich.Only one rule matters. No one can ever learn the marriage is a contract.But his cousins are hunting for proof. His mother has already chosen another bride. The woman he once nearly married has returned with a smile and a secret. And buried in the King family vault is the truth about the night Madison's parents died.She came to destroy him. She stayed to survive him. And somewhere between the lies and the kisses, she started to love him.The cruelest part of the deal was never the contract. It was what the Kings were willing to do to keep it from being fulfilled.

“Walk out of this room tonight without signing those papers, and your brother’s body will be floating near the Palermo docks before sunrise.”Sophia Rossi returned to Sicily for answers about her dead parents, not knowing her arrival would drag her straight into the dangerous world her father spent years trying to protect her from.One public slap was all it took to put her in Luca De Luca’s path.Cold, feared, and next in line to lead one of the most powerful mafia families in Palermo, Luca becomes the last man Sophia ever wanted tied to her life. But when a dark secret from the past resurfaces, Sophia is forced into a marriage neither of them wants while enemies begin circling from every direction.Now trapped inside the De Luca empire filled with blood, lies, betrayals, and deadly family secrets, Sophia realizes the biggest danger in Sicily may not be Luca himself… but the people standing closest to him.Because somebody is secretly turning both families against each other.And if the truth comes out, it won’t just destroy their marriage.It will start a war.

I gave up my inheritance, my family and my future for love.For ten years, I devoted myself to my husband, Mark Laurent, and our daughter, Sophie, believing sacrifice was what made a family strong.Then one night changed everything.When Mark, Sophie and his first love were kidnapped, I was the one who brought the ransom money through a storm. But instead of saving me, my husband and daughter begged me to stay behind in Bianca’s place.They promised they would come back for me.They never did.For three years, I was tortured, abandoned and forgotten while another woman slowly took my place in my own home.But the weak stay-at-home wife they left behind no longer exists.Now I’m back as the CEO of Valecrest Holdings.Powerful. Untouchable.And holding my husband’s entire future in my hands.But revenge becomes complicated when Lucien Knight enters my life, the cold billionaire who sees every broken part of me and still stays.Now my husband wants me back.Bianca wants me destroyed.And my daughter is slowly realizing the truth about the woman she chose over her own mother.This time, they’ll learn one thing the hard way.Their loser wife...is a big shot.