Detective Rafe Flores has been insinuating himself into the Petrov mob boss's crime organization to uncover the links tying them to human trafficking without success. Until he's tasked to protect the mob boss's stunning niece, an angle he plans to use to crack this case. It won't take much to feign interest in Ella. She's gorgeous and stirs him. He'll romance her, get her to trust him and land himself in the mob boss's inner circle. But he never expected she would set fire to his blood after a single night in her arms. Because now he craves her with every breath.

Ella Dominik never asked to be related to a mob boss. All she wants is a normal life outside of the crime syndicate. Her uncle's organization took everything from her, her family and her freedom. Before she can enact her escape plan, she's assigned a new guardian. Sinfully handsome, he makes her want to forget all the heartache and loss, forget the promise she made at her mother's deathbed. But it would be a betrayal of the highest order if she surrendered to the untamed desire he evoked.

Except one night she caves to the incendiary heat, surrendering to the quixotic pull of their mutual attraction. And Rafe discovers Ella's plans for escape, he offers her the one thing she has always wanted, a chance to start over once they bring her uncle's organization down. All she has to do is continue pretending they're in a relationship.

But what happens when the lines between what is real and what is a mirage blur? And falling for the enemy, no matter how much she craves him, would be the dumbest thing she has ever done.