"If I fuck you Serenity, nobody else ever will." Serenity: The anniversary of our greatest loss should have brought us closer. Instead, it exposed cracks I didn't know were there. Secrets I didn't know needed to be uncovered. Then messages from an unknown number, started to unravel truths I could not unsee. The man I thought I knew has been living another life... and I was never meant to find out. Then my father gave me a choice that wasn't one at all: marry Etherio. A man cold. Dangerous. And beautiful in ways that feel like a warning. Etherio: I didn't ask for a wife. I asked for justice and marrying his daughter is the perfect way to get close enough to ruin him. But the more I'm around her, the harder it is to remember she's my enemy. When Serenity's past resurfaces, she's forced to confront the secrets she thought were buried forever. Cryptic messages from an unknown figure reveal shocking truths about her late husband, threatening to destroy the fragile life she's built. As she navigates this treacherous landscape, Serenity's father demands she marry Etherio, a man she barely knows, in a loveless arrangement that ignites a fiery tension between them. As they're forced to live together, Etherio's ulterior motives slowly give way to a deepening attraction to Serenity's complexity. But his growing feelings are tainted by the fear that she'll betray him just as she did her first husband. Torn between desire and revenge, Etherio must confront the darkness of Serenity's past and the secrets she's keeping.