"They tried to break her. She learned to destroy."She came home for a fresh start. Instead, she walked straight into a nightmare.After years away at university, Isabella Romano returns home, unaware that the bloodstained past she tried to escape is waiting for her. Before she even has a chance to breathe, she is kidnapped by the fiancée of Dominic Castellano, the city’s most feared mafia king.Her crime? Existing.Thrown into the dungeon beneath his estate, Isabella expects a swift death. But Dominic has other plans. He doesn’t kill quickly. He makes people suffer. And for reasons she can’t understand, he wants her to break slowly.Starvation. Isolation. Fear.He watches as she shatters, piece by piece.But Isabella is no fragile flower. She doesn’t beg. She doesn’t cry. And that makes Dominic’s game far more entertaining.Then the past she’s been running from comes back with a vengeance.Antonio Guerra, Dominic’s sworn enemy, learns who she really is—and suddenly, she’s worth more alive than dead. The moment Isabella becomes a bargaining chip in a war between two ruthless men, survival is no longer about endurance.It’s about strategy.Because the only thing more dangerous than a man who enjoys breaking peopleIs is a woman who refuses to be broken.

"He let her go. Now, she’s the one in control."Thrown into a ruthless marriage as payment for a debt, Stacy George finds herself bound to billionaire heir Luke Washington—a man as cold as ice, twice as merciless. To the world, he’s wealthy and powerful. But behind closed doors, Stacy is nothing more than a placeholder in a love story that isn’t hers.While Luke showers his childhood love with affection, Stacy is left to rot in the shadows. But silence breeds fury. Betrayal fuels revenge.She’s done being the victim.If they think she’ll bow, they’re mistaken. If they think she’ll endure, they’re fools.Now, Stacy is serving their own poison—on a silver platter.Let the game begin.