Ella Martinez is drowning in student debt and exhaustion when she finds a bleeding stranger in an alley. Every instinct screams at her to run, but her medical training won't let her leave him to die. Big mistake. Adrian Volkov is the heir to a brutal mafia empire, and the men who stabbed him want him dead. Now they know about Ella, and in Adrian's world, mercy is a death sentence. He tells her to run but she refuses. He offers her money to disappear but she stays. He tries to push her away, she pushes back. But when Adrian's own father puts a gun to her head, Adrian makes a choice that will shatter both their lives: he trades his empire for her survival. Now they're hunted by everyone;his family, his enemies, the FBI. Her apartment is a crime scene. Her best friend is traumatized. Her father, who she thought was dead, is actually a prisoner used as bait and she's pregnant. Caught between rival mafia families, a brother's vengeance, and a father's cruelty, Ella and Adrian must decide: keep running forever, or burn it all down and fight for a future neither thought they deserved.