When her bathroom ceiling crashes down, Madelaine Grayson loses everything except her curves and her sanity. Forced to move in with her brother, she ends up sharing a wall with Noah Laurier — his tall, tattooed, ridiculously hot roommate.From the second Noah steps close, those inked fingers and deep voice send heat rushing through her body. He’s all sharp jaw, broad shoulders, and quiet confidence, and Madelaine can’t stop imagining his hands on her full breasts, sliding down her waist, gripping her hips while he pins her against the wall.He’s strictly off-limits. Her brother warned her. But every late-night encounter in the kitchen, every accidental brush of skin, makes the ache between her thighs worse. The tension is unbearable.Because the more Noah looks at her like he wants to devour her, the harder it becomes to remember why she’s supposed to stay away.

Aziel Alvaro never wanted a wife, and Catalaiya Snyder never wanted an arranged marriage. Bound together by a deal they both hate, the two strangers are forced to live under one roof while resentment slowly turns into something far more dangerous. Between painful pasts, broken expectations, and words left unsaid, they must decide whether to keep pushing each other away or finally face the truth. Because sometimes the scariest thing isn’t the mafia—it’s falling in love.