One night, compassionate nurse Mary Bennett saves a dying stranger without knowing he's Lorenzo De Luca, the most feared Mafia King in the underworld. Within hours, she's dragged into his world and taken to his mansion. Lorenzo gives her a cruel ultimatum: marry him under a one-month contract or become an easy target for the enemies who now know she saved his life. Trapped in a world of bloodshed, betrayal, and dangerous secrets, Mary is forced to play the role of the Mafia King's wife. But as their fake marriage begins to feel real, the ruthless man feared by all slowly reveals a side only she can see. When the contract comes to an end, Mary must decide whether to walk away and reclaim her freedom, or risk everything for the man who owns the underworld... and perhaps her heart

Damian Cross is worth billions. He built an empire out of ice and control, and he hasn't let another person touch him in twenty years.Wren Calloway is drowning in medical debt, watching her little sister fight cancer one impossible bill at a time. When a strange, cold marriage offer lands in her lap — one year, no touching, and enough money to save her sister's life — she signs before she can talk herself out of it.She thinks it's just paperwork. A year of pretending, then freedom.She doesn't know the man she just married is running from a secret buried in fire and blood. She doesn't know that somewhere between the silence and the distance, she's about to become the one thing his broken heart was never built to survive.