Luca Ricci believes every risk can be calculated—until he discovers he has a five-year-old son.

Suddenly, the twenty-five-year-old Harvard graduate is balancing fatherhood with his family’s dangerous business and a high-stakes casino deal threatened by Russian rivals. Then Irina enters his home.

The beautiful ballerina from Monaco appears to be the perfect nanny for Eddie. But Irina is living under a false name, hiding from a powerful man who believes she belongs to him. Luca offers her protection, unaware that keeping her close may endanger everything he is trying to build.

What happens when forbidden attraction turns three strangers into a family? And can a man who treats control as love protect Irina without becoming another man she needs to escape?