Serena Marchetti has spent her entire life surviving.
Surviving a father who taught her that love always comes with pain. Surviving a home where trust was a weapon. Surviving wounds no one else can see.
She buried her heart a long time ago.
Then her mother marries into the Rossetti family—and overnight, Serena is trapped inside one of the most ruthless empires in the city. Power is inherited. Secrets are currency. And every man under that roof is more dangerous than the last.
None more than Dante Rossetti.
The brilliant, cold-blooded heir who can predict every move… except hers.
He was never supposed to become her weakness.
She was never supposed to become his obsession.
What starts as stolen glances turns into stolen nights. Hatred blurs into hunger. Every lie they tell only pulls them deeper into a relationship that could destroy them both.
Because some secrets are worth killing for.
And theirs is sleeping just across the hall.
One forbidden touch. One unforgivable secret. One man who will burn the world down before he lets her go.