Serena endures an icy, sexless marriage with a social-climbing executive who constantly minimizes her worth and demands her silence. In a haze of spiked drinks at a gala, she falls into the arms of an enigmatic stranger she mistakes for her husband, triggering a night of unbridled passion.
The mystery lover turns out to be Evan, the city's ruthless underworld financier who holds her husband's business debt and has searched sixteen years for the girl who once bandaged his childhood wounds. As Serena uncovers evidence that her husband murdered her parents for insurance money, Evan offers her unlimited munitions and vengeance. Serena must navigate a treacherous web of crime families to avenge her lineage alongside a kingpin who refuses to let her go.
