"Take off your gown. I want to see what I paid for." Alyssa Hills will do whatever it takes to save her dying mother and salvage the future she's worked so hard for. When her scholarship vanishes overnight and the medical bills become impossible, she makes a deal with the devil himself marry Jace Stone, a ruthless billionaire who doesn't need a wife. He needs a pawn. Now she's trapped in a marriage built on power and humiliation, bound by a contract that's taken every choice she had. But his dominance awakens something in her she never expected a dark, forbidden pleasure that both terrifies and thrills her. This isn't just a transaction anymore. It's war. And she doesn't know if she wants to win or surrender.