He built a tower to start a war. He didn't expect her to burn it down. Mia Knox is the currency of New York City. The daughter of the city's most ruthless crime lord, she has lived her life in a gilded cage, untouched, unspoken to, and utterly alone. Until the rainy night the cage is opened—and she is taken by a ghost. Kael is a myth. A whisper in the underworld. A hitman with a code of iron and a past buried in ice. He doesn't want money. He wants revenge. And taking Mia is the perfect strike against the man who destroyed his family. He locks her in a glass penthouse above the clouds. He expects a spoiled princess. He expects tears. He gets a strategist. As the city below descends into chaos, the line between captor and captive blurs. Mia isn't just a pawn in Kael's war; she's the queen he never saw coming. And when the walls of their sanctuary are shattered by 50-caliber fire, they must make a choice: die as enemies, or survive as partners. From the steel canyons of Manhattan to the frozen woods of the Hudson Valley, His Captive, His Queen is a story of vengeance, survival, and a love forged in the fires of a burning empire. They told her he was a monster. They forgot to tell him she was the knife.