Amara Delos Reyes never believed in arranged marriages—yet she agrees to one to save her struggling family’s business. Her husband-to-be, Cassian Moretti, is cold, unreadable, and impossibly controlled. To her, he’s just a powerful CEO from an old-money European-Filipino family.
What she doesn’t know is that Cassian is the ruthless head of the Velvet Syndicate, a feared mafia empire that rules the underground with elegance and brutality. And marrying her isn’t just a family arrangement—it’s part of a deadly plan.
But the moment Cassian sees her, something shifts. She becomes the one thing he vows to protect with everything he has… even if it means destroying his enemies, betraying his oath, or burning down his empire piece by piece.
As danger creeps into Amara’s life and secrets start to crack open, she must face a truth more terrifying than the marriage itself:
She didn’t just marry a stranger. She married the king of the underworld.
And now the whole world wants to break her.
