Ariana Hart's world shatters in a single night when her father is murdered, and she is taken by Marcus Reed, a man determined to make her family pay for the loss of his sister. Then his nephew, Eli Coleman, comes back into her life. She is forced into a marriage she never desired. She should hate him. He should despise her. But living under the same roof awakens something. Old memories become new desires. Hatred begins to blur into longing. The closer they get, the harder it becomes to tell where revenge ends and desire begins. But in a war born from their parents' sins, love may be the most dangerous thing they could choose.