Cindy never expected her mother's marriage to a billionaire to change her life overnight. Thrust into the luxurious Knight Mansion, she finds herself living under the same roof as Blake Knight, her cold and dangerously irresistible new stepbrother. What begins as hatred soon ignites into a forbidden attraction neither of them can deny, threatening to destroy their family, their hearts, and everything they hold dear.

She was never supposed to be his — but Ciro Russo doesn't believe in limitations.When fate and desperation collide, Clarion "Ciro" Russo — the feared don of the most powerful mafia empire in North America — offers her a deal she can't refuse: marry him, wear his ring, and survive. What looks like a contract is really a cage built from obsession.She tells herself it's temporary. He knows it's forever.Ciro doesn't just want her compliance — he wants her surrender. Every defiant glance, every attempt to escape, only tightens his grip. He's watched her longer than she knows. Wanted her longer than is sane.But power comes at a price, and his enemies are closing in. To survive his world, she'll have to become something she never imagined — his queen.The question is whether she'll claim that throne or be destroyed by the man who put her on it.