She built an empire on fear. I walked in and made her feel everything.

Jessica Qureshi doesn't do weakness. As the heir to Dubai's most dangerous criminal family, she's spent her life perfecting the art of control—cold, calculating, untouchable.

Until the night I walked into her brother's penthouse party and our eyes met across the room.

I'm Natalia—a Croatian model caught in a gilded cage, desperate to escape the man who thinks he owns me. I should run from Jessica. Everyone does.

But when she looks at me, I don't see the mafia queen everyone fears.

I see hunger. Protection. Possibility.

She calls me baby. I call her Mommy. And the world between us is about to explode.

What happens when a woman who's never been vulnerable falls for someone she'd burn the world to protect?

What happens when the only way to save each other... is to destroy everything they've ever known?

A forbidden age-gap romance featuring:

Mafia heiress with a dangerous reputation × Model running from her toxic ex

Enemies-to-lovers intensity

Obsessive protection and possessive devotion

Explosive confrontations and shocking betrayals

Chosen family over blood

A love worth fighting for—and killing for