Gretel despises Javier del Mundo for countless reasons—his arrogance, his wealth, his refusal to be anything like the man she'd imagined. Yet nothing compares to her unwanted attraction to him. Shrouded in mystery and concealing dangerous secrets, Javier is the last man Gretel should entangle herself with. When her brother becomes implicated in a theft at Javier's estate, she makes a desperate gamble: offering herself as collateral in exchange for his innocence. Now bound to a man she both hates and desires, Gretel must navigate the shadowy depths of his world. As she inches closer to the truth, one question becomes impossible to ignore—will she survive what she discovers?