He was supposed to be my brother. The cold CEO everyone feared. The man who controlled the entire country's business world. But one night, he looked at me and calmly destroyed everything I thought I knew. "We're getting married." I laughed but he didn't. Now every door in my life is closing, every choice is disappearing, and the one man I'm not supposed to love refuses to let me go. Because to Lucien Hale, this was never forbidden. It was inevitable. And the most terrifying part? The closer I get to him, the harder it becomes to run.

Aria grew up inside the Moretti estate as the daughter of the family’s housekeeper. She was close enough to the Mafia world to fear it but smart enough to stay invisible. She planned her escape quietly, saving money and dreaming of a life far away from the violence and blood. Romano Moretti was the opposite of everything Aria wanted. He was cold, powerful and extremely dangerous. He was the undisputed head of the global mafia empire, a man who never asked twice and never gave without taking something in return. What Aria doesn't know is that she has never been as invisible to him as she believed. When Aria’s gambling father disappears over a debt he cannot pay, her world collapses overnight. Desperate, her mother goes to Romano for help and he agrees. But his help comes at a cost Aria never imagined. Marriage. With no other way to save her father, Aria gives herself to a man who doesn’t ask, doesn’t negotiate and doesn’t let go. What begins as a deal becomes possession, obsession, and a bond she can never escape. Because Romano Moretti doesn’t fall in love. He claims.