Princess was raised to be polished and poised—groomed to play her part in her father’s crooked game of power, image, and control. But when the truth starts cracking through the surface and old debts need settling, she ends up in the grasp of a man built from everything her world tried to keep out.
Nyce doesn’t answer to anyone. He runs the city from the shadows—quiet, calculated, and cut off from anything that could make him soft. But the preacher’s daughter wasn’t supposed to talk to him like that. She wasn’t supposed to look at him like that. She wasn’t supposed to matter.
What started as leverage and collateral turns into something dangerous that neither of them saw coming. And by the end, love isn’t even half of what’s discovered.