I made a deal with a monster in a tailored suit. When my father died, I thought grief was the worst thing I’d ever face. I was wrong.
He left behind dark secrets and a single lifeline keeping my mother alive—our family’s hundred-year-old restaurant. Then Knox Vale walked into my life and ended my world with a single look.
Cold in his eyes. Controlled in his movements. Catastrophic in every way that matters. Heir to a multi-billion-dollar empire— and the man my father didn’t just work for… but betrayed.
Knox owns the loan tied to our restaurant. With one signature, he could take everything I have left. Unless I accept his alternative: Marry him. For six months. A deal with a beautiful devil.
To save my mother, I agree to his terms: A legal marriage. A perfect public lie. No love. No lines crossed. Rules that were doomed the moment he touched me.
Because when I enter his world, everything shifts. Knox Vale watches me like I’m a secret he intends to unravel. Touches me like I’m a weakness he plans to exploit.
And when the mask slips, I see a man I shouldn’t want… yet can’t walk away from. I thought he’d ruin my life. I didn’t expect him to rewrite it.
