He’s a cruel man, and he’s taking me against my will. Bar tending at the Devil’s Alpha bar was supposed to be temporary. Until my brother got in too deep with the MC that runs it. Now I’m stuck in this dead-end job in the worst part of Chicago. Until a fated night, where things take a darker turn. The night a tall and gorgeous stranger enters the bar. He sticks out like a sore thumb, with his designer suit and expensive watch. Axel is making a deal with the Morrone family. The man is the eldest son, Massimo Morrone, heir to the Morrone mafia throne. They come to an agreement, but there’s one problematic condition. Massimo Morrone won’t supply them unless they give him me. My brother tries to fight it, but Axel is the president. What he says goes, and I’m not worth messing up a lucrative deal. Despite not being theirs to trade, I end up the property of a filthy rich Italian mob boss. Massimo drags me kicking and swearing out of the bar. He makes it clear he wants my submission the moment we’re alone. He thinks he can take me and make me his plaything as if he’s God. Before I know it, I’m marched to the end of an altar in front of people that I don’t know. A gun pressed to my back while I’m forced to say my vows. He puts his ring on my finger, binding us together in the eyes of the law. If he thinks that makes me his, he’ll have a shock. I belong to no one, and by the time I’m through with Massimo Morrone, he’ll wish he never married me.

They told me I was hideous with a face only a mother could love; a face that haunts your nightmares. They locked me up and kept me hidden away from society like a nasty secret. Then I met Jessica and my body ached for her with every fibre of my being. I wanted to do things to her—dirty, filthy things I knew she’d enjoy if only she would let me. I will not rest until I possess every single inch of her body and woe betide anyone who comes between us.

One taste gave me an addiction for life.

We were promised to one another as children. Heath took my first kiss and stole my innocence. He wrote me letters filled with love, darkness and hope. I was supposed to be his wife, until everything I knew was ripped away from me. My life is over and there’s no one who can help me now. Not even the boy with charcoal eyes…

He’s the most beautiful monster she’s ever seen.

Emmy Atler is desperate for a job so she can help her grandfather with his increasing medical bills. She even applies to be a maid for Jason Belmont, recluse writer, who’s known more for the murder of his cheating wife and her lover than his popular thrillers. He may have gotten off on a technicality, but everyone knows he’s guilty.

Just because he’s quiet and awkward doesn’t mean he’s actually innocent. Just because he treats Emmy with warmth and respect doesn’t mean he’s not capable of killing her with his bare hands – especially considering the fact that he lives in a secluded cabin in the woods of Lake Tahoe. Emmy can scream and no one would hear.

Now, with her grandfather’s health on the line and the risk of debt closing in, Emmy must do her job and ignore her growing attraction for her employer – especially if she wants to avoid risking her life for a man both brooding and fatal.