The last thing either of us want is to fall in love. But that doesn't mean it won't happen anyway.

Gabriel Esposito is a part of the same criminal underworld that my father is–and a widower in need of someone to care for his children. My father offers me to him as a wife, but Gabriel doesn't want to marry anyone.

He wants to give me a job.

Away from my childhood home and on my own for the first time in my life, I have a chance to heal from the horrors that haunt me. But Gabriel is a different kind of complication–the kind of man I never knew existed in my world. A good man.

A man who shouldn't want me–and who says he can't give me what I deserve.

He says he'll only break my heart in the end. But neither of us can resist this vicious temptation.