"What happens when the one man you should never love becomes the only one you can’t let go of?" When Anastasia Irina Delgado moved into her uncle’s home, she thought she was stepping into a life of silence and distance. Instead, she found herself drawn to the man who hides behind shadows, a man who carries his secrets like armor.Her uncle named Alex Dimitri Volkov, is cold, enigmatic, and impossible to read—yet beneath that darkness, something forbidden begins to bloom. What starts as quiet tension slowly becomes a dangerous pull, a romance that should never exist. Every glance feels heavier, every touch more intoxicating, until desire consumes them both. Will they surrender to the fire between them, or accept that some loves are too dangerous to survive?