They didn't just take her life. They sold her soul. Jude Bennett was a ghost in her own home. At eighteen, her world was a cycle of her stepfather's heavy hands and her mother's deafening silence. But the real breaking point came when her sister vanished into thin air- gone without a trace, leaving Jude alone in a line of fire. She thought she knew what "hell" felt like. She was wrong. Hell arrived the day her stepfather's debts came due-and the currency wasn't cash. It was her. Dante Russo. The King of the Italian Mafia . A man whose name is whispered with a prayer for mercy that never comes. He doesn't just break his enemies; he erases them. When Jude is handed over to him as payment for a debt she didn't owe, she expects a monster. What she finds is something much more dangerous: a protector who demands everything she has to give. Now, she's miles away from the life that broke her. Dante says she belongs to him now. And in his world, what the King owns, he keeps. ©2021