Celeste dances to pay off her dead father's debt, and the night she takes the stage at a Chicago club, the most feared mafia boss in the city watches her from the shadows and loses the control he spent fifteen years building. When a drunk grabs her wrist, Soren Valenti crosses the entire room and makes everyone understand that touching her has consequences. She is too proud to be owned and he is too dangerous to love, but the moment he chose her in front of allies and enemies, he put a target on her back. Now the debt has a name, her best friend has been taken as a message, and the protection she swore she did not need may be the only thing standing between her and the men who want to make her pay.