Sera Russell was the mafia family's disposable daughter-until she caught her fiance in bed with her own sister and was immediately married off to the family's comatose crown prince. But Sera,secretly a top forensic pathologist, knows the truth: Kalen isn't brain-dead. He's been druggedand bedridden for three years, fully conscious, while his stepmother steals the family's billions. Acold contract-she nurses him back to health, he grants her protection. But from a shockingoreakfast-table wake-up to a courtroom showdown, two people buried alive by their own bloodare digging their way out. When his vengeful ex returns and the state moves to lock him away,their transaction marriage becomes the only armor they have.