Devotion to The Core

Arabella: "You're playing a dangerous game, Mateo. My father didn't summon me back to Italy to be your trophy or your 'Queen.' He brought me back to take the throne you've spent ten years warming."

Mateo: "Then take it. I've spent my life preparing to bleed for a legacy, but I'd rather bleed for you. If you want the crown, I'll hand it to you myself-along with the match to light the fire."

Arabella: "You'd let the Moretti empire burn? Everything my father built? Just to stand next to me?"

Mateo: "I watched you tear through a fortress to get to me, Arabella. I don't want an empire if you aren't the one ruling it. I'd burn the whole damn world to ashes just to watch the flames reflect in those storm-grey eyes of yours."

When the two worlds collide at the Moretti estate, the power struggle turns into a war of nerves.

Arabella Moretti is a rose AND its thorns. To the paparazzi, she's a billionaire tech CEO and the city's ultimate "It Girl." To her father, the most powerful Don in Italy, she is a lethal secret kept in the shadows for twelve years. For years, the underworld has lived in the shadow of a ghost, a nameless killer everyone assumed was a man; they have no idea that the "Ghost" they fear is the very princess coming back to claim her throne.

Mateo is the Predator of Italy. Pulled from the dirt and sculpted by the Don himself, he is the strongest, most ruthless soldier the Moretti family has ever seen. He has spent his entire life bleeding for the crown, assuming the position of Don was his to take. He's cold, he's calculation personified, and he doesn't handle threats well.

Mateo expects a pampered princess he can control; Arabella expects a soldier who knows his place. Neither of them knows that the Don has already made his final move: a blood-bound arranged marriage to fuse the two most dangerous legacies in Italy.

In a world where loyalty is rare and devotion is a weapon, who will bow first?