17 parts Ongoing MatureWhen Luca Marino returns from exile in Europe, he doesn't come home-he comes to claim. His father's retirement leaves the Marino empire vulnerable, and Luca intends to rule with an iron fist. But his inheritance comes with a shadow: the girl his father adopted, trained, and turned into a blade sharper than any knife.
Raven doesn't forgive. She doesn't forget. At six, she was molded into the family's deadliest assassin; at eighteen, she was used and discarded by the heir she was raised to protect. Now, she serves the empire with silent obedience-until Luca's return tears the scars wide open.
In a city where loyalty is bought in blood and betrayal is paid in corpses, the two are bound by a past drenched in violence. Every move they make pulls them deeper into a game where love is a weapon, trust is a death sentence, and the throne is only won by the last one left breathing.