Some men save you. Mine owns me.

The gunfight in the truck yard should have killed me. Instead, Declan Murphy, the tattooed Irish mafia enforcer I once had arrested just to make him hurt, becomes my only shield against a bullet with my name on it.

He's brutal. Unforgiving. And the only man who ever made my dancer's body disobey my brain.

Years ago, I was the ballerina who destroyed him. Now he's my bodyguard, my fake husband, and the most dangerous man in every room I enter. Our marriage is a lie to keep me alive, but nothing about the way he pins me to walls and growls mine feels fake.

Declan doesn't do mercy. He does possession. Touch her and die isn't a warning—it's his gospel. And every scorching threat, every moment he keeps me caged against him, reminds me why I fell so hard the first time and why walking away was the worst mistake I ever made.

My father vanished into the underworld. The secrets I'm chasing could get us both executed. And the family Declan's built around us, the fierce, loyal crew willing to bleed for me because he said so, is the only home I've ever known.

The war between our worlds is closing in. I'm caught between the devil I chose and the darkness hunting me. But Declan Murphy doesn't lose what's his.

And he made me his a long time ago.

A standalone dark Irish mafia romance featuring an alpha bodyguard hero, a ballerina heroine with a spine of steel, fake marriage, scorching enemies-to-lovers tension, second chance love, found family, fiery banter, and an HEA worth bleeding for.

For mature listeners.