In Porto Nero, debts aren't paid with money-they're paid with blood.
When forensic accountant Luc a Ferrer kills a debt collector in self-defense, she becomes collateral in a war she never agreed to fight. Her late father's ledger holds the numbers that could implode a criminal empire, and now Carlo De Santis wants it-along with Luc a-before the truth ever reaches daylight.
Her only leverage is the one man Carlo can't control: Matteo De Santis, the heir they call the Crow. Matteo offers Luc a a deal that sounds like protection and feels like a cage: sanctuary behind palazzo walls, her sister smuggled to safety... and a public engagement that makes Luc a untouchable-unless it paints a bigger target on her back.
But in a city built on contracts, someone always breaks them. As betrayal closes in and the dead-man proof goes live, Luc a and Matteo are forced to decide what's real: the engagement, the control... or the love neither of them can afford.