Intro. Riven Ashford runs the city's most feared mob — and his soul is as dark as the alleys where his name echoes. Cold, calculating and ruthless, he hates everything and everyone. He lives in silence, surrounded by blood, debt and forced obedience. To the world, Riven is a cruel legend. For enemies, a warning. To himself, just a man condemned to solitude.
But there is a single exception. Caroline.
Shy, reserved and with a fragile smile, she works in a bookstore in the city center and never imagined being the weak point of someone like Riven. She loves him in silence, hiding her feelings like someone hiding a forbidden secret. What she doesn't know... is that Riven is watching her. Always.
Nobody touches Carolina. Nobody looks at her with malice. Because Riven doesn't forgive. He kills. And for her, he would destroy the entire world.
When one of her rivals tries to kidnap her to weaken him, Riven shows the darkest side of her fury. And it is in this chaos, in this blood shed for love, that Carolina discovers who