I knew my best friend since childhood loved me. I knew it. And when I got back from my business trip, I was going to tell him how I felt, especially when he told me he had something exciting to tell me. But it wasn't that he loved me. He'd gotten married while I was on an overseas business trip to my worst enemy.

Jenna Rosario has always been the fierce, loyal protector, the friend who would stand in front of a storm but never step into one. Yet deep inside, she longed for the rush her world never gave her... the thrill of danger and the taste of action her best friends could never understand. Xavier lived in that darkness every day. Cold, relentless, and cunning, he knew the shadows of the Mafia better than anyone. When the mission demanded a partner to play the role of his wife, he needed someone with fire in her veins. Jenna was the perfect fit. Together they are thrust into a deadly underworld where every glance could be betrayal and every touch could mean exposure. Pretending to be bound by love, they find real passion burning between them. The deeper they sink into the game, the more the line fades between duty and desire, between the mission and their hearts. But in a world where trust can kill and passion can destroy, Jenna and Xavier are about to discover just how fatal their vows really are.

"7 years of marriages went away in just one-night, unfaithful night." The Whitlock Dynasty isn't just another elite family. They are a shadow empire-powerful, ruthless, and untouchable. A mafia clan that dominates the underworld with precision and fear. For seven years, Julien Whitlock played the role of the perfect wife to Dylan Oswald, the cold heir of the Oswald Empire. What Dylan never knew was that Julien wasn't just a Whitlock by name-she was trained from childhood to be an assassin, molded by her family to protect their legacy. But none of that mattered to Dylan. On their seventh wedding anniversary, Julien walked into their bedroom to find Dylan fucking his longtime lover, Lady Jane, in their marital bed. He didn't stop. He didn't even look at her. Only later, he handed her divorce papers without a shred of guilt. Julien signed them without a word. But inside, something snapped. The polite, obedient wife Dylan thought he knew was gone. Returning to her family, Julien shed her old life-and her old heart. With the protection of her brothers, Kade, Alexis, and Derek, she vowed to raise her unborn son, Lucius and Xavier, free from the chains of her past. But the Whitlocks don't forgive. They don't forget. And Julien Whitlock doesn't walk away quietly. Because love isn't the only thing that kills. Revenge is deadly, too.

April I fight fires for a living-but I've never felt more burned than I did that night. As a forest ranger, I live on the edge of danger and calm. My body is strong, my will even stronger, but that doesn't mean I'm unbreakable. I thought love-real love-would see through the scars I keep hidden beneath my uniform. I thought Ellis saw me. Understood me. But all it took was one careless sentence. One drunken confession echoing through a baby monitor, turning a celebration into a battlefield. He humiliated me in front of everyone-my friends, my chosen sisters, myself. And now I'm standing in the ashes of something I thought would last forever, wondering if I've been lying to myself about what love really looks like. Ellis I was drunk. Stupid. Thoughtless. It was just a conversation. Boys being boys, joking around in a room where I thought no one could hear. But they did. She did. And I said things I can't take back. I don't even recognize the man who said them-because that man humiliated the strongest, most loyal, most incredible woman he's ever known. April is the kind of woman who runs toward danger. Who holds broken branches like they're bones and brings people back from the edge. And I crushed her with words. Now I'd do anything-everything-to take it back. But the damage is done. And I'm not sure I deserve to be the one who tries to fix it.

Enzio was a Hunter for the Body. He'd taken an oath to do his job, no matter what he had to do. Just how far was he willing to go? The biggest fear he had was if his wife, Moxie, would be there when he revealed just how far he had gone.