Arabella Voss is falling in love with the man who killed her brother.She just doesn’t know it yet.After her father dies suddenly and her older brother Julian is shot and presumed dead, Arabella is left fighting for control of a family empire powerful men have already decided she is too young, too female and too vulnerable to rule.Then Voss begins to bleed.Rivals attack. Police tear through the legitimate businesses. Accounts are restricted. Allies become liabilities. And someone always seems to know exactly where the empire will hurt most.Damian Devereaux offers Arabella the one thing she hates needing: an alliance.He is heir to the family she was raised to distrust, cold enough to be useful and dangerous enough to make their enemies hesitate. Their arrangement is supposed to be temporary, strategic and strictly business.It becomes none of those things.Hostility turns into respect. Respect becomes desire. And somewhere between surviving their enemies and learning how much they can accomplish together, Arabella begins trusting the one man she never should.Because Damian is the man who pulled the trigger on Julian.And he is not the only one keeping secrets.Someone who understands the Voss family from the inside is quietly turning old grudges, police evidence, business failures and buried loyalties into weapons against Arabella.To claim the empire, Arabella will have to discover who is moving the pieces before the truth destroys everything she has fought for.Her throne.Her family.And the man she was never supposed to love.