Victoria Ashworth is the most feared defense attorney in New York—a woman who bends juries to her will and makes billionaires beg. When she's forced to represent enigmatic mafia heir Dante Marchetti in the trial of the century, she expects a monster. Instead, she finds a man who makes her blood burn and her carefully controlled world unravel. As the Musk vs Altman AI trial explodes across global headlines, Iranian missiles light up the Persian Gulf, and a deadly virus traps thousands aboard an Atlantic cruise ship, Victoria discovers Dante's empire holds the key to a conspiracy that reaches from Wall Street to the White House. The closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes the real danger isn't the mafia—it's the people who run the world. And Dante Marchetti might be the only man alive who can protect her from them.