When Karis's father gives her away to a ruthless mafia boss as payment for a debt, she must learn to survive and contain her feelings for the dangerously handsome killer. Will she sink or swim?

When the flirty Earl of Dreamwood hires the town's schoolteacher to tutor his children, people of all classes begin to speculate about their relationship. Fate seems to want them together, but the people around them are determined to keep them apart. Can the love they thought they'd never feel triumph or will their dark and twisted pasts keep them from what they want most?