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He never should’ve touched her.
She never should’ve seduced him.

 

Halo Shepard, daughter of the Branded Bloodlines kingpin ruler, has been raised to obey. Her father has already sold her future, chosen her husband, and shackled her to a life she never chose.

 

As the third son of a powerful crime family, Tatum Beauchamp has spent years drinking, partying, and squandering every opportunity handed to him, cementing his reputation as the family's favorite disappointment.

 

When one drunken, forbidden night together shatters a powerful alliance, Halo and Tatum enter a temporary marriage to save their lives.

 

It should be a simple arrangement. Survive. Lie. Walk away.

 

Instead, it sparks a blood feud and forces them to choose: fight together or die apart. And if every moment they spend protecting each other blurs the line between duty and desire, so what? When the clock runs out, they're free to bail. Because in a world where loyalty is law, loving each other is a death sentence.