Alessia Monroe has spent years trying to build a life away from her father’s powerful but troubled reputation. She has her own career, her own ambitions, and no interest in the endless war between the Monroe and Devereux families.Then everything changes.Monroe Holdings is drowning in debt, and Alessia’s father is running out of options. Just when the company is about to collapse, Matteo Devereux—the billionaire CEO whose family has hated the Monroes for years—offers them a way out.His price is Alessia.Six months of marriage.Matteo claims the arrangement is business, but Alessia quickly realizes there is something darker behind his offer. He didn’t choose her because he needed a wife.He chose her because she is a Monroe.Determined not to be intimidated, Alessia enters the marriage with rules of her own. She refuses to become Matteo’s obedient wife, even when his cold exterior begins to crack.Living together forces them closer than either expected. Arguments turn into stolen glances. Resentment becomes attraction. And the man Alessia thought was incapable of tenderness slowly becomes the man she trusts most.But Matteo is keeping a secret.Their marriage was part of a revenge plan long before he ever touched her hand.When Alessia discovers the truth, everything between them falls apart.Worse, she learns that the feud between their families may have been built on a lie. Someone manipulated both families years ago, and the truth could destroy the last thing keeping them together.Now Matteo must choose between the revenge he spent years pursuing and the woman who became more important than everything he ever wanted.And Alessia must decide whether she can love a man who once married her for all the wrong reasons.

One inheritance. One dangerous marriage. One family secret that could destroy them all.When Isabella Moreau’s father dies, she expects grief, unanswered questions and the painful task of rebuilding her life.Instead, she discovers that her father left her something far more dangerous than money.He left her control of a secret financial empire used by some of the most powerful mafia families in the world.But there is a catch.She has only thirty days to claim her inheritance. If she fails, control will pass to Alessandro De Luca, a ruthless mafia leader whose name is connected to her father’s final days.Isabella suspects Alessandro knows more about her father’s murder than he admits. Yet when threats begin closing in on her and her younger sister, he becomes the one man with enough power to protect them.His solution is shocking: a one-year marriage.Alessandro wants her inheritance secured. Isabella wants answers, protection and the freedom to make her own decisions.She agrees—but only on her terms.Inside the De Luca mansion, every smile hides a motive, every alliance carries a price, and the secrets of her mother’s past begin to surface. The deeper Isabella investigates, the more she realizes that her father’s murder was only the beginning of a conspiracy reaching into both families.And the man she is supposed to distrust may be the only person capable of helping her uncover the truth.But can she love a man whose family may have destroyed hers?A marriage built on secrets. An empire built on blood. A woman determined to inherit more than a name—her own power.