Plot Synopsis:Natalie Grimaldi has always been a fighter. Rebellious, sharp-tongued, and unwilling to break under pressure, she’s spent most of her life enduring the cruelty of her uncle, Gideon Grimaldi , a greedy man who raised her only to use her as a pawn.When Gideon announces that she’s to marry Viktor Roman, a Russian billionaire twice her age, in exchange for a debt settlement, Natalie is furious, broken and frustrated. On the day of the wedding something unexpected happens she is claimed in a contract marriage by California's most feared Mafia family, LORENZO DE LUCA. She finds herself being sold twice!! Lorenzo doesn't know her name, doesn't care about her except his own gains(the real reason he bought her) but something in her fire, her refusal to bow, stirred something long buried in him. He buys her for something much more deeper —nothing more. But Natalie refuses to break. Even as he claims her body, her life, she hides her heart, planning escape, revenge, and freedom.But the longer she remains under Lorenzo's roof, the more she begins to see cracks in his stone facade: his silence, his shadows, his haunting grief and most of all HIS SECRET. The real reason he bought her. And against every wall she’s built, Natalie begins to feel the tug of something she vowed never to give him—sympathy. Maybe even more.As Natalie secretly builds her own power, forging connections and learning the dark truths behind Lorenzo's empire, she must face the hardest question of all:Can she destroy the man who bought her, if he’s the first one who ever saw her?Or will she fall for the devil who was never meant to love?

Frances Morgan is the top-ranking detective in the FBI’s elite unit—smart, relentless, and unafraid of danger. When a string of brutal murders strikes her quiet neighborhood, the case is handed to her after everyone else refuses to touch it.Determined to uncover the truth, Frances dives deep into the investigation—only to discover the shocking identity of the killer. Even more unexpected? She finds herself drawn to him in ways she never imagined.Her already tangled emotions are pushed to the breaking point when her family arranges her marriage to the powerful heir of the Marcello family, forcing her to choose between duty, loyalty, and forbidden love.Will she uphold the law and bring him to justice, or will she risk everything to protect the man she loves?