Sawyer, a-rising-star celebrity, is drugged and attacked at a gala, only to be rescued by Ezra, the ruthless don of the Sicilian mafia. Convinced Ezra is the mastermind behind his parents’fatal car crash and manipulated by his girlfriend Lillian, Sawyer enters a one-year fake-marriage contract with Ezra. His goal is to infiltrate the don’s inner circle and dig up evidence to avenge his family.
As they live side-by-side, Ezra repeatedly risks his life to shield Sawyer, and his self-less protection keeps shaking Sawyer’s convictions. Piece by piece, the brutal truth unfolds: it was Sawyer’s own elder brother Aurelion who orchestrated the deadly car accident for inheritance. Lillian has long been Aurelion’s secret lover. She falsely took credit for saving Sawyer and wove an elaborate lie to deceive him.
Meanwhile, Camilla, the scorned former fiancée of Ezra, and Lucian, the power-hungry rival mafia boss, launch relentless attacks. They smear reputations, stage abductions and set bomb traps, pushing the pair from one life-or-death crisis to another.
Through shattered misunderstandings, heart-wrenching betrayals, tower-crane hostage situations and bomb-defusal ordeals at sea, Sawyer finally realises Ezra is the childhood companion who shared hard days with him in the orphanage. Having untangled every knot of the past, the two stand united to take down all their enemies. They hold a sun-drenched seaside wedding and make a lifelong promise to stay by each other’s side.
