Some deals are made with a handshake.
Hers was made with a bullet.
Avery Collins thought she knew fear until she woke up in a stranger's bed, trapped behind the walls of a fortress she couldn't design her way out of.
Dante Torriano is everything she was taught to fear: powerful, ruthless, and utterly without mercy. He's also the most fascinating man she's ever met. He speaks of violence like other men speak of weather, and when he looks at her, she feels like the only woman in the world.
He calls it a deal. Three hundred and sixty-five days to win her heart. If she refuses him at the end, she walks free.
But the rules keep changing. The lines keep blurring. And somewhere between the handcuffs and the confessions, between the danger and the desire, Avery stops counting the days and starts praying they'll never end.
He was supposed to be her captor.
He became her obsession.
And in the end, he might be her destruction.
One year to fall in love.
A lifetime to pay the price.
