“Elena Vale gave up everything for love. At twenty-two, she was willing to destroy her own future to protect the man she thought she would marry. While he built his career and enjoyed his freedom, Elena spent two years in prison believing he would come back for her, he never did. The night she is finally released, Elena discovers the painful truth - Ryan Carter is engaged to another woman, living the life Elena sacrificed hers for. Humiliated, heartbroken, and with nowhere left to go, she crosses paths with Atlas Black, cold, powerful, untouchable and known throughout the city as The Devil's Heir, Atlas is the feared son of a notorious crime lord, a man surrounded by violence, secrets, and whispers of bloodshed. People fear him. Women avoid him. Enemies disappear because of him. Yet for reasons Elena cannot understand, Atlas takes an interest in her, what begins as a dangerous arrangement slowly pulls Elena into a world she never imagined - luxury, power, betrayal, and deadly enemies hidden behind expensive smiles. But the closer she gets to Atlas, the more she realizes the man everyone calls a monster may be the only person who has ever truly seen her. And falling for him could cost her everything.”