Y/N Vespera leads an all-female syndicate built on the belief that men are unreliable and dangerous. That belief holds until Luca Moretti stops an assassination attempt on her and becomes impossible to remove from her world. Every lead, every enemy, every crisis seems to connect back to him—yet he keeps proving useful in ways she can’t ignore. He never asks for reward, only steps in when she or her people are in danger. Y/N doesn’t trust him, barely tolerates him, but as a war builds in the underworld, she finds herself relying on the one man she was never meant to need.