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They call me Sophie ‘The Handler’ Havers at my job as a criminal prosecutor because I’ve never lost a case. There’s nothing I can’t handle. Including Drew Harper— the man who’s been obsessed with me from afar for years. He’s intense, protective, and possessive. I bump into him the night after I throw my lying ex out. He tells me that if he had things his way, he’d be my husband already.

Patrick Mahoney erased my bloodline in one brutal night. His answer to my father's betrayal? Total annihilation. But he missed one. Me. Instead of finishing the job, he's claimed me—bound me to him with a ring instead of a bullet. Now I'm trapped in a marriage forged in blood and vengeance with my family's executioner. For him, it's a strategy, a twisted merger of violence and power. For me, it's survival. But grief hasn't made me meek—it's made me dangerous. I fight him at every turn—his cruelty with defiance, his dominance with rebellion.

My whole life, I've come out on top. One of the finest players ever to grace the NHL? Check. Most prolific playboy with an enviable reputation between the sheets? Check. Award for the cockiest athlete in America? Also, check, and well deserved I'd say. So why does my life feel anything but the perfect image I project? And why won't the one woman who came crashing into my life and knocked me on my six-foot-four ass take me seriously?