Axton Hale built his empire with cold precision, ruthless focus, and one rule—
never fall in love.
But everything collapses the night he marries a woman who shouldn't exist.
Valentine Crowne.
A quiet, fragile girl with empty eyes.
A girl raised in poverty, abandoned by everyone she ever loved.
A girl who hides a secret… and a past even darker than his own.
What Axton doesn't know?
She is the lost heiress of the Aldridge Syndicate—
the most feared underworld dynasty in Europe.
And her mother belongs to the Vale Conglomerate,
North America's financial empire that moves governments like chess pieces.
Valentine isn't just a bride.
She is the sleeping dragon of two world-ruling families.
A power bomb waiting to wake.
And the day Axton breaks her heart,
the day he throws her out with his unborn child,
is the day her bloodline awakens…
She returns five years later—
not as a broken girl he once owned,
but as the queen of the global underworld,
a legendary actress,
and the woman capable of burying his entire empire with a single command.
Axton wanted control.
He created a monster.
And now she stands in front of him,
flames in her eyes, their son on her hip.
"This time, Axton…
I won't be the one kneeling."
Love becomes war.
Desire turns into obsession.
A marriage becomes a battlefield of power, betrayal, and unspoken longing.
When a billionaire marries a sleeping dragon—
only one survives the fire.