Naledi is nineteen, invisible to the world. A maid working inside a mansion built on secrets, she tells herself to keep her head down, to survive, to ignore the whispers about the man who owns the house.
Dante Moretti is thirty-five, untouchable and feared. A king in South Africa’s criminal underworld, he rules with control, calculation, and a heart long buried beneath bloodstained loyalty and betrayal.
Their worlds were never meant to collide.
But when enemies discover that even the coldest mafia boss has something — or someone — worth protecting, the fragile distance between employer and maid begins to shatter.
He is a storm.
She is the only soft thing left in his world.
As rival syndicates close in and old ghosts resurface, Naledi must decide whether loving a dangerous man is bravery… or suicide for the heart.
And Dante must confront the one truth he has avoided for years:
Power can command fear.
But it cannot command love.
In a city where betrayal is currency and weakness is fatal, their slow-burning connection may either save them…
Or destroy them both.