She was the payment. He was the punishment. Neither of them expected to survive it. *****When Aria Vale’s stepmother delivers her to Obsidian Tower — barefoot, bankrupt, and betrayed — she knows she won’t leave alive. Lorenzo De Santis is the monster New York fears. A mafia god with emerald eyes, a graveyard of enemies, and a heart he buried with his parents twenty years ago. He trades in death, not desire. Aria is just a debt. A name on a contract. A girl who should have died with her father. But then she doesn’t cry. Doesn’t beg. Doesn’t break. And for the first time in two decades, the Emerald Serpent finds himself interested. Now she’s trapped in his world of blood money and blackout deals, hunted by his enemies and hated by the woman who shares his bed. He was going to destroy her. Now he can’t let anyone else touch her. **She was sold to sin. He’ll teach her how to worship it.**