“Get your filthy hands off my woman.” Adrian Augustine yelled at his nephew, yanking his hands off my arms. “You don't get to call her your woman!” Dylan screamed at him and the hall went silent. I stood between both men, staring and loving the way they were worshiping me but it did nothing to my heart. Five years in prison had done something to my heart, that made my heart so cold I could barely feel the warmth of love. ………. Evelyn Jonas was an excellent college student, straight A's and also the college cheerleader. She had everything in check, including a job waiting for her immediately when she graduates from college but everything takes a different turn on one terrible night. After getting a special invitation to a school party by ice prince Dylan Augustine, she attends and they had a one night stand. She woke up the following morning, drenched in blood,the blood of one of the most influential men in the hockey game,with his lifeless body lying next to her. She's charged to court, imprisoned and Dylan? He never showed up. She found out she was pregnant in jail but got beaten up and she lost the baby. Five years later, a man showed up at her cell with an offer. He's Adrian Augustine, Dylan's uncle, one of the men who had the power to stand up for her five years ago but did nothing. He'll get her out of jail on one condition, she has to fizzle her way into a Mafia organization, and find out their secrets. She accepts the deal with hatred in her heart and revenge as her top tier plan. What she didn't expect was the warmth she begins to feel when Adrian is close by or the realization that everything he'd done for the past five years was for her protection and that of her secret fortune.

One touch, and I was lost.”’ His voice was a whisper against my ear, his breath hot on my neck. “He cannot touch you the way I do, Bella. He does not know your body like I do. You are mine. Every inch of you, every hidden place, every moan you make. And nothing, not even your mother, will keep me from owning this pussy." His words burn against my skin, like a promise and a threat at the same time. "You're mine. And I don't share." ******* Isabella Moretti made one mistake. One night that should have stayed buried. One moment with the man she was never supposed to want; her stepfather, Damian Blackwell. She runs to New York. A fresh start. A shot at her journalism career and a life where she can forget the way his hands felt on her body. But Damian doesn't believe in letting go. Not when it's what he wants. When her mother announces Isabella's engagement to her friend's son and asks her to come home to meet her new husband, she thinks maybe she's finally escaped. Until she sees her stepfather-to-be’s face. It's him. Damian Blackwell Damian isn't just the man whose body she wants; he's hiding something dark enough that could actually launch her career into the world. Or destroy everything she's ever loved. Now Isabella's trapped between impossible choices: Her mother's approval, love and a "perfect" future The man who owns every forbidden part of her soul But some fires don't just burn.They consume everything. A dark stepfather romance where the lines between ambition and desire blur beyond recognition.