In the criminal underworld, loyalty is a lie and trust is a death sentence.
Scarlett Navarro has survived as a freelance assassin by following one rule: never belong to anyone. She's a wild card in New Orleans' bloody game of power—dangerous, unpredictable, and impossible to control.
Until the night she fails to kill Kieran Volkov.
The ruthless heir to a Russian syndicate, Kieran doesn't forgive mistakes. But he doesn't kill Scarlett either. Instead, he makes her an offer soaked in blood and wrapped in threat: become his personal weapon, or watch everyone she's ever cared about die screaming.
Trapped in his dark world, Scarlett becomes the wild card Kieran plays when he needs his enemies eliminated. But the brutal dance between them ignites into something neither can control—a savage, all-consuming desire that blurs the line between hatred and hunger, captor and captive.
As rival syndicates close in and deadly secrets surface, Scarlett and Kieran face an impossible choice: destroy each other, or turn their lethal partnership against the world trying to tear them apart.
In a game where love is the most dangerous weapon of all, they're betting everything on a hand that could save them—or bring them both to their knees.
Some games are played for keeps. Some are played for blood.
