He’s a king posing as a lackey, bound by a promise. She’s the beautiful disaster determined to break him free.
Raziel Mercier is cold, controlled, and lethal. Bound by a deathbed promise to a woman he’ll never love, he’s built walls around his heart to keep the world out. The last thing he needs is a walking, talking liability with a reckless mouth and eyes that beg for trouble.
Maya is a storm of bad choices and bruised resilience, fighting to stay clean and out of her sister’s hair. From the outside, wanting Raziel makes no sense. He’s mean, surly, always judging her, and he has a fiancée. But Maya wants him. She knows the dangerous, possessive man hiding beneath the icy exterior, and she’s not afraid to burn his carefully constructed world to the ground.
Raziel doesn’t want to want Maya. But he does. He knows she’s trouble. He just doesn’t care.
As their explosive obsession ignites, it threatens a fragile empire built on lies. Caught between a sacred vow and a woman who feels like fate, Raziel must choose: honor the promise that chains him or embrace the chaos that could finally set him free.