Nadia Voss is a broke cocktail waitress one bad shift away from eviction — until she spills a glass of Merlot across the most expensive white shirt she's ever seen, and the man wearing it doesn't get angry: he makes her an offer. Rafe Calloway, the most powerful man in the city, wants her installed in his home as his live-in personal assistant, and the arrangement is exactly as cold and controlled as the man himself. But the closer Nadia gets to Rafe's world — his guarded silences, his locked rooms, his stylist-curated wardrobe waiting for her like she was expected — the more certain she becomes that this was never a coincidence. Because six years ago, her dying father made a deal she knew nothing about, and the man on the other side of that deal has a name she now says every morning when she walks through his front door. How do you survive a man who may have owned your future long before you ever spilled his wine?