Three jobs lost in one year. Forty-seven dollars to her name. And a secret she can't tell anyone.Naomi Abbot is desperate. When she lands a live-in nanny job for billionaire crime lord Kaelen Aaron, she thinks her luck has finally turned. The pay is good. The boy is sweet. The mansion is warm.But Kaelen is not warm.He is cold. Cruel. He looks at Naomi like she is nothing. He tells her she is nothing.Then one night, after his world explodes—a destroyed shipment, a rival's warning, too much whiskey—he stumbles into her room. And everything changes.One mistake. One night. One baby.Now Naomi is trapped in a forced marriage with a man who hates her. His ex-boyfriend wants her back. His right-hand man has secrets. And when bullets fly, Naomi learns the truth:The man who said she was nothing just took a bullet for her.

Elena is the most beautiful she-wolf anyone has ever seen. She hates her face.Her beauty got her parents killed. Her entire pack burned. A jealous alpha destroyed them all just to possess her. Now she lives like a ghost in the forest, face hidden under mud and a hood.Three years alone. No pack. No hope. Just guilt.Then hunger drives her out. She breaks into a stranger's house to steal bread. She is caught by Alpha Alexander — cold, ruthless, and furious. He chases her through the woods. She nearly falls into a pond of hungry alligators.She is saved at the last second by Alpha Ray, Alexander's rival.But Ray locks her in a cell. Now she is a prisoner between two alphas.Alexander comes to punish her. He lifts her hood. He sees her face. His anger turns to obsession. He wants her.Ray has not seen her face yet. He only sees a frightened, dirty thief.Now Ray must choose: hand Elena over to his enemy, or keep her for himself once he sees what Alexander saw.And Elena must learn if she can ever feel safe — or if beauty will always be a curse.