Life isn't always just good and evil, like stories depict. For Isabelle Dupont, scarred and timid, fiction is her only escape. After living a sheltered life, hidden from society, she's thrown into a world only found in her books-the mafia. Dragged in with a lie and trapped by the capo, Isabelle learns there's more to her life than what she was led to believe.

Rafael Corsetti finds himself wanting to protect the woman with strange scars and an even stranger history. She could be the key to ensuring his family's safety and finding their enemy. Even as facts unfold and Isabelle's hatred for him grows, Rafael wants her for himself. In the end, beauty doesn't always want the beast.