The first book in International #1 Bestselling Author Isabella Khalidi's new dark mafia romance series set in the merciless world of a Serbian crime family. The Godfather meets Succession.

He came home to bury the dead.
He never meant to crave the one woman who could bury him with them.

Stefan Lazarević spent years putting an ocean between himself and the Serbian crime dynasty that made him. In New York, he built a life with no family, no loyalty, no return.

But when his mother dies, the world he fled drags him home.

Belgrade is a city ruled by blood and old power. Every street is a reminder of what Stefan was born into—and everything he tried to escape. But the most dangerous thing waiting for him is not the empire he left behind.

It is Katarina Zarubica.

Rival heir. Mafia princess. Blood enemy.

Beautiful, ruthless, and bred for war, Katarina is everything Stefan was raised to despise—power draped in silk, cruelty honed into elegance, and the kind of woman men either kneel for or destroy.

She is everything he should leave alone.

But Katarina is no ornament. Beneath the diamonds and perfect control is something feral enough to match him—furious, reckless, and just as desperate to tear free of the life carved out for her.

She is not the enemy he expected.
She is the one woman capable of matching him blow for blow.

Hatred breeds obsession. Obsession breeds desire. And desire becomes the kind of ruin neither of them can afford.

In a city built on blood, wanting her is treason.
Touching her is war.