Sloane Cross was born into one of the six elite families. Sharp-tongued, emotionally volatile, and secretly exhausted by the role expected of her, Sloane has no interest in becoming another decorative wife trapped inside a gilded cage. So when her family attempts to marry her off to a man she despises, she proposes an alternative: a strategic marriage to Titus Danforth - an older, vicious, unreadable man from another elite family who has spent years avoiding attachment altogether. As their marriage drifts from tactical alliance into obsession, the line between devotion and destruction begins to blur. Because the terrifying thing isn't that Titus understands the darkest parts of her. It's that he loves her anyway.