Alessia Rossi thought she was safe. She traded the bloodstained reputation of her family for a corporate life of order, only to be betrayed and surrendered as payment for a monstrous debt. Now, she is the captive of the one man more dangerous than the secrets she carries. Dante Falcone is a Don defined by lethal precision and chilling patience. He doesn't want money—he wants ownership. Alessia is his most valuable asset, forced into his opulent cage to dismantle her family's empire piece by piece. Her freedom is conditional, her defiance is useless, and her survival depends on absolute obedience. But proximity breeds a dark kind of hunger, and the cold war between them ignites into a searing, forbidden heat. As Alix fights the terrifying pull of the man who controls her fate, she realizes the true peril isn't the threat of his enemies, but the certainty of her surrender. She is his collateral. He is her damnation. And in the dark heart of his empire, their debt is only just beginning.