Everyone said he was brain-dead. They were wrong.
Meet Luca Valentini—heir to a $30-billion mafia empire, kept "comatose" for two years by his own stepmother, drugged into silence while she looted everything he owned. Enter Seraphina Moretti: her family's "useless" daughter, sold into marriage like livestock… except she's secretly an elite forensic pathologist who's been dismantling cartels for the FBI. She agrees to marry a "vegetable" to save her family. What she gets is a fully conscious mafia king—wide awake, plotting revenge.
One single scan. One deadly secret. One impossible alliance between two people betrayed by everyone who was supposed to love them.
Poison. Forced marriage. Courtroom warfare. A stolen $30-billion empire. And a love neither of them ever planned.
Can she awaken the beast before his enemies bury them both?
