Because you can’t survive a war if you’ve already fallen for the enemy.
She married the monster to make him bleed.
But now she’s the one left gasping for air.
Josephine Shaw walked down the aisle armed with secrets and a plan—marry the man who destroyed her family’s fortune and watch him suffer from the inside out. But Colson Ashworth is more than she bargained for. On their honeymoon, she gets her first taste of just how merciless her new husband can be. And still she can’t look away.
Because cruelty isn’t his only currency.
There are moments—rare, devastating ones—when Colson touches her like she matters.
And it’s those moments that begin to break her.
The deeper Josephine falls into this world of power and betrayal, the harder it becomes to tell love from manipulation… or punishment from desire.
But when the past she thought she understood begins to crumble under new revelations, she realizes something worse than heartbreak is coming.
