Isabella Price is untouched. Innocent. A porcelain doll raised behind gilded walls — too naïve to know the monsters that live in the dark. But when her father's debts to the mafia come due, she's handed over as payment.
To him.
Drystan Sepher Alphamanio is the King of Spades — a brutal, obsessive mafia lord with a taste for control and a soul blackened by blood. He doesn't want her for business. He wants her for himself.
Not to protect.
To own.
Dragged into Drystan's world of velvet and violence, Isabella is caged in luxury and ruled by his twisted desires. Every look he gives her is a promise of punishment. Every touch is a threat laced with pleasure. She hates him. Fears him. But when he chains her wrists in silk and whispers how no one else will ever have her, her body betrays her.
As Drystan marks her with bruises and kisses, as he tears down her innocence with every punishing night, a dangerous hunger blooms between them. Isabella is no longer sure if she wants to escape him... or be devoured whole.
But obsession cuts deep.
And in the house of the King of Spades, love doesn't heal.
It ruins.