Ophelia-Daisy Moretti has spent her life locked in a golden cage-unloved, unseen, and forgotten by the family who should have protected her. Born into a world of crime but too soft for it, she survives through daydreams of a love that doesn't exist in her world. Until her father sells her to his enemy. Vincenzo Giovanni is the cold-hearted king of the Italian underworld. Feared, respected, untouchable. He doesn't do love, doesn't do mercy. But when a fragile, wide-eyed girl is delivered to his doorstep as part of a blood-soaked bargain, something begins to shift. She's not what he wanted. But he might be everything she needs. In a world where loyalty is deadly and love is weakness, their story will be written in stolen glances, shattered trust, and the kind of longing that could burn empires to the ground. This is not a love story. It's the war they never saw coming. She was sold to him like property. He never expected her to become his weakness.

Some girls dreams of love letters tucked beneath pillows, of chance encounters that turn into forever. Daisy Aisling dreams of a kitchen with warm lights, quiet laughter, and someone who would sit across the table from her-not for the pastries, but for her. She wants love, yes. But not the grand, sweeping kind. She wants the kind that stays!