King Campisi is the heir to the Campisi family and set to lead in his father’s place someday. He is a leader: strong, insightful, and loyal to his family. He feels the weight of expectation and the pressure to carry on, but he also knows his family is the most important thing and he will bear the weight for those he loves.

Del never imagined the direction her life would lead. She imagined marrying for love, marrying for life, leading her family in her father’s footsteps. Now that she is entering an arranged marriage, she has some mental shifts to make in order to stand as King’s queen, because her heart belongs to someone else.

This marriage is one both enter freely for their own reasons, even though it may have been arranged by their families. It doesn’t hurt that King is already in love with his betrothed, but he never imagined he’d have to win the love of his wife from another man.

These two had my heart twisted for much of the book. I hated that because of the loyalty each had to their families that they would enter a loveless marriage, enter the arrangement they had made. But I also loved that they were willing to sacrifice in order to keep their loved ones safe.

There was a lot going on in this book, from the relationship of the main couple, twisted family dynamics, and a threat from within that there was always something to be on the lookout for. I think part of me resisted the fact that this is the final book in the series until the very end, because that’s how long it took me to realize how all the loose ends were going to be tied up.