Lexi is scraping by in Manhattan when her ex-husband tightens his grip, using her Social Security number to keep her trapped and dependent. Just as the walls close in, Nathaniel—a billionaire who has quietly watched her for three years—offers a contract marriage she has no good reason to refuse.
What starts as a cold arrangement drags them into a conspiracy tied to Lexi's missing arms-dealer mother and a hidden technological legacy. Lexi stops playing the pawn and starts building her own leverage, going after the people who buried her family's secrets. The cost is everything she has left—and Nathaniel's blood feud is the fuse.
