Amara Hayes is twenty-eight, brilliant, and dangerously good at her job. Which is why she walks into a live television studio with a folded financial filing and the absolute refusal to be intimidated by the most powerful CEO in the country.Forty-seven seconds later, Damien Laurent's billion-dollar merger is in ruins. The clip goes viral. And Damien cold, calculated, and lethally patient begins quietly dismantling her career with the precision of a man who has never lost anything he decided to keep.Then he offers her a deal she cannot refuse.Six months. A fake engagement. In exchange her career restored, her mother's surgery paid for, every problem solved.The contract is twelve pages long. The rule is three words: Do not fall.But Damien Laurent is not the man she decided he was in that studio. Beneath the control is a boy from Lyon who made a decision at nine years old and has been paying for it ever since. A man who apologises badly and means it completely. A man whose hands, when they finally find her, carry the warmth of something contained for far too long.And the most dangerous thing about him is not his power or his money or the way he looks at her across a crowded room like she is the only thing worth looking at.The most dangerous thing is that he sees her.All of her.And he is not afraid of any of it.Some rules are written to be broken.Some people are impossible to hate once you know them.And some love stories begin the moment you try to destroy each other.

Adaeze Obi came to Blackthorn University with one goal graduate and go home.She did not come for drama. She did not come for trouble. She definitely did not come for him. Damien Black is cold, powerful and feared by everyone on campus. As Alpha of the most dangerous werewolf pack in existence, he has never wanted anything he could not have.Until Ada.One look. One scent. One word.Mate.But Ada does not believe in wolves, fate or men who think they can own her. She has spent her whole life fighting for her place in the world and she is not about to surrender it not even for the most powerful Alpha alive.He says she belongs to him.She says he can go to hell.What neither of them expected was falling.Claimed by the Alpha where the fight is just the beginning of the fire.