Charlotte had just undergone a mastectomy. Marriage was the last thing on her mind. But to honor her grandfather’s dying wish, she agreed to marry the second grandson of New York’s most powerful mafia family. It was supposed to be cold. Strategic. Loveless. Until the veil lifted at the altar—And it wasn’t her fiancé standing there. It was Cassian Moretti. Her fiancé’s older brother. The man she kissed once to escape danger. The man who never forgot. He’d kidnapped his own brother. Planted a bomb beneath the church. And told the Marry us, or watch it burn. So she became his. Not out of love—But out of fire, obsession, and control. He locked her away. Mocked her mastectomy scars. Told her she looked like a man. Only touched her in the dark—never face-to-face. She was his wife. His prisoner. His punishment. Until she left. No warning. No note. Just silence. Now, he’s tearing through cities—Destroying anyone who might know where she’s gone. Because losing her Was the one wound He’ll never survive.

She walked out after one final argument with her arranged husband—Not knowing it would be the last time she’d walk free. Charlotte thought marrying Cassian was the price she had to pay to honor her grandfather’s dying wish. What she didn’t expect… Was a husband who mocked her scars, chained her body, and turned her vows into a prison. Until she finally had enough and left. But before she could start over, her father found her first. He had her quietly committed to a psych ward, where she was drugged, erased, and kept hidden from the world. Cassian never knew she was taken. All he knew was that she disappeared. And for the first time, the cold, calculated heir to the Moretti cartel felt something he’d never allowed himself to feel: fear. Now, he’s tearing the world apart to find her—driven by guilt, madness, and a love he never deserved. Because the woman he once dismissed is the only one who ever truly owned him. And when he finds her, he won’t let her slip away. Even if she hates him. Even if she burns him. Even if she never forgives him—He’s ready to grovel. To bleed. To be hated—As long as he gets to love her again

After breast surgery, Charlotte disguises herself as a man and enters House of Devils—a brutal, underground military training camp where heirs of the world’s deadliest mafia families fight for survival. Every year, only forty are chosen—one from each country—and only one makes it out alive. She’s running from an arranged marriage she swore to honor on her grandfather’s deathbed… then vanished from. But the devil she was promised to finds her anyway. Cassian Moretti—deadly, calculating, heir to the Moretti cartel—is one of the three ruthless commanders of the House of Devis. And he’s the man she was supposed to marry. The man who holds the key to the two years she can’t remember. He recognizes her the moment she steps into the pit. But she doesn’t recognize him. Not the cold gleam in his eyes. Not the obsession behind his smirk. Not the vow he’s whispered every night since she vanished: If she won’t come to me willingly… I’ll take her by force. Charlotte thinks she’s here to survive. Cassian came to claim his bride. Even if it means betraying his family, his House, and his current fiancée—Charlotte’s own sister. What Charlotte doesn’t know? Cassian plans to annul the engagement the only way the underworld respects: by kidnapping the bride he actually wants and marrying her by force. And when the time is right—he’ll steal her away from the House and drag her into his world. To his estate. To his bed. To the altar. Even if he has to chain her there himself.