“"One touch is a miracle. Two is a contract. Three is an obsession." Vespera Moretti was the perfect substitute, until the real heiress returned and her family threw her to the streets like a piece of broken glass. Humiliated and penniless, Vespera has only one weapon left: a mind built for war. She targets Cassian Valeska, the "Untouchable King" of a global media empire. Due to a dark childhood trauma, Cassian suffers from severe Haphephobia; a single human touch sends him into a violent panic. He is a man who rules the world but cannot hold a hand, until Vespera grabs his wrist, and the chaos in his mind stops. Vespera is his "Fated Exception." The Deal: She will be his skin, his fiancée, and his strategist to stabilize his crumbling throne. The Price: He will give her the scorched-earth power to dismantle the Moretti family brick by brick. But as the "Touch Protocol" moves from tactical hand-holding to soul-searing intimacy, Vespera realizes that healing a monster is dangerous... especially when the monster starts to crave her more than his own empire.”