Seven years ago, someone paid for your mother's cancer treatment. Tonight, you learn who—and what he wants in return.

Silas Vane isn't interested in money. The most powerful crime boss on the Eastern Seaboard doesn't need repayment for the hundreds of thousands he spent saving a stranger's life. What he requires is simpler: three weeks. You will wear his ring, live in his penthouse, and convince a traditional crime family that you are the devoted fiancée of a man you've never met.

The arrangement seems straightforward. Perform the role. Clear the debt. Walk away with enough money to disappear.

Then you meet him.

Silas is nothing like the monster you expected—and somehow that's worse. He's controlled where you anticipated chaos, principled within a code that makes his ruthlessness more unsettling, not less. He speaks sparingly, watches constantly, and focuses on you with an intensity that feels far too personal for a business transaction. The penthouse is luxury and cage in equal measure: windows that don't open, doors that don't lock from inside, and a ring on your finger that belonged to his mother.

As you navigate family dinners with the Renaldis, deflect the attention of a charming rival heir who sees through your performance, and find unexpected warmth in Silas's sister, the lines begin to blur. The act of devotion becomes harder to distinguish from something real. His restraint starts to feel like hunger held in check. And questions multiply: Why you? Why now? What does Silas Vane actually want?

The world you've entered operates on codes older than law—debts honored, agreements kept, violence precise. In this realm of harbor money and back-room deals, everyone is watching for weakness. And something about the way Silas protects you suggests this arrangement was never quite what it seemed.

Featuring a controlled, possessive crime lord with secrets of his own, forced proximity that becomes genuine temptation, and a slow-burn dynamic where every touch means something and every silence says more.

The debt is owed. The performance has begun. The only question: what happens when you no longer want it to end?