Everything Ryker Valen’s family has built rests on shadows and silence, on power and obedience, and he’s the one in control. He owns everything worth owning in his city, its guns, its secrets, its fear. Violence raised him, destruction crowned him, and love had never come near him. Until Madison. Her sunlit eyes shattered his restraint, and he should have looked away. But instead, he watched her, he let her in. Now every glance, every smile, pulls her closer into a world she’s not ready for. Danger hides in the corners of his empire, and secrets linger where no one dares to look. With all the risks that threaten them in his world, he never would have expected that her own past would be the one to haunt them. Can he save them both