Forty-one days until the auction. Forty-one days until she's sold to the highest bidder-or burns the city to the ground. After five years on the run from her ruthless uncle, Kiara Marino finally loses. Trapped in a decaying warehouse and promised to foreign syndicates like merchandise, she is certain this is the end. until the door explodes and the man who once shattered her heart steps through the smoke.
Enzo Rossi. The ghost she buried. The lover who walked away without a word. Now he wears scars, a gun, and the iron mantle of chief of security to Chicago's most feared Mafia family. His rescue comes with a price. To survive Silvio's vengeance and the deadly politics of the underworld, Kiara must accept a marriage that is nothing but a calculated shield on paper-and an inferno of unresolved desire in reality.
Locked in Enzo's high-security fortress, surrounded by enemies and secrets, she's forced to confront one unbearable question:Did he betray her. or destroy himself to save her?As the countdown to the Syndicate Auction ticks away, Kiara must decide whether to trust the man who broke her, become the bait in a lethal game of revenge-and claim her place beside a guardian willing to wage war for her soul.
Forty-one days until the auction. Forty-one days until she's sold to the highest bidder-or burns the city to the ground. After five years on the run from her ruthless uncle, Kiara Marino finally loses. Trapped in a decaying warehouse and promised to foreign syndicates like merchandise, she is certain this is the end. until the door explodes and the man who once shattered her heart steps through the smoke.
Enzo Rossi. The ghost she buried. The lover who walked away without a word. Now he wears scars, a gun, and the iron mantle of chief of security to Chicago's most feared Mafia family. His rescue comes with a price. To survive Silvio's vengeance and the deadly politics of the underworld, Kiara must accept a marriage that is nothing but a calculated shield on paper-and an inferno of unresolved desire in reality.
Locked in Enzo's high-security fortress, surrounded by enemies and secrets, she's forced to confront one unbearable question:Did he betray her. or destroy himself to save her?As the countdown to the Syndicate Auction ticks away, Kiara must decide whether to trust the man who broke her, become the bait in a lethal game of revenge-and claim her place beside a guardian willing to wage war for her soul.
