She was born to rule an empire. He was sworn to protect it. Falling for each other was never part of the plan. Evgenia Volkova has spent her entire life being shaped into a weapon-sharp, beautiful, and invaluable to her father's Bratva empire. A political marriage is supposed to cement their future. Instead, it becomes the cage she refuses to step into. The one man who sees her clearly is the one she can never touch. Leonid Mikhailov is disciplined, loyal, and dangerous in all the wrong ways. As Evgenia's elite bodyguard, he is trained to be invisible-unshakeable-unreachable. But when an attack exposes just how far he will go to protect her, the truth becomes impossible to ignore. He's not just loyal. He's hers. Their desire sparks a forbidden fire that threatens to consume them both, and when her father accelerates the wedding she never wanted, Evgenia must make an impossible choice: betray her heart, or burn her world to save the only man she has ever trusted. But the Bratva watches everything. And loving Leo might cost him his life. In a world built on blood, loyalty, and control, Evgenia will rise-or she will destroy every enemy who underestimates her. Even if that enemy is her own father. And Leo... Leo will fight anyone who dares to claim her.