SYNOPSISLyra Donnelly inherits her father's $2.3 million debt the night he's gunned down outside their restaurant — debt owed to Dimitri Voss, the mafia king who controls half the city's underworld. He offers her one way out: marriage. She accepts to save her younger siblings, certain she's signing on to a loveless cage. But Dimitri isn't collecting on a debt — he's protecting her from the men who actually killed her father, men now closing in on her as his wife. As she peels back his icy control to find the man beneath, she uncovers a secret that could end them both: her father didn't owe Dimitri money. He stole something from him first.