Her stepmother sold her off like merchandise, trading her life for money and handing her to a cold-hearted mob boss. She was brought to his world as a possession, an object to be claimed, and she prepared herself for a life of cruelty. What she found instead was a man of dark intensity who saw fire in her eyes, not weakness. He claims her, protects her, and slowly, impossibly, earns her trust. But the stepmother who sold her, and the enemies circling the mob, will not leave them in peace. Sold by the family that should have loved her, she has found a strange and dangerous home in the arms of the man who owns her.
