Rose Adams has spent ten years trapped inside her own home. After her parents’ death, her aunt and uncle took everything — her house, her inheritance, her freedom, and her voice. Treated like a servant by her cruel cousin Brittany and haunted by the dangerous attention of Rony, Rose knows she must escape before her twenty-first birthday… before her family can force her into a marriage and steal what is left of her life. On the night of Brittany’s birthday party, Rose runs. Bleeding, terrified, and desperate, she hides in the back seat of a black luxury car. But the car does not belong to an ordinary man. It belongs to Alexander Knight. To the world, Alexander is a billionaire hotel owner. In the shadows, he is the most feared mafia king in New York. Cold. Ruthless. Powerful. Untouchable. Alexander does not save people. He destroys them. But when he finds Rose shaking in his car, begging him not to send her back, something inside him changes. Her fear awakens a dangerous obsession in him — one that makes him want to protect her, claim her, and ruin anyone who ever made her cry. Rose thinks she has escaped one monster only to fall into the hands of another. But Alexander Knight has one rule: He never hurts the innocent. And once Rose becomes his, no one is allowed to touch her again. Not her family. Not his enemies. Not even the darkness of his world. She was a broken rose hidden in a house full of lies. He was the devil who found her. And for her, the devil would burn the world.