Ava Carter answers a stranger's call at midnight, she expects a scam. Instead, she's offered the one thing she can't refuse: her dying brother's surgery, paid in full — in exchange for one year as the wife of the man the city calls the Devil.Damien Moretti doesn't do anything without a reason, and Ava isn't the reason he's given her. The night she signs his contract, she also learns her father's death — ruled as an accident twelve years ago — was anything but, and the Moretti family knows exactly what really happened.Every clause has a price. Every kindness hides a motive. The deeper Ava digs, the clearer it becomes: she didn't just marry a stranger. She married the answer to a question she didn't know she was still asking.The contract binds her for one year. The truth might cost her everything.