King of Wrath

Ana Huang’s King of Wrath begins when billionaire Dante Russo is blackmailed into an engagement with Vivian Lau, the daughter of a wealthy family seeking entry into his elite social world. Dante values control and resents the arrangement; Vivian understands that the marriage serves her parents’ ambitions but intends to preserve her dignity within it. Their forced proximity turns a strategic alliance into an increasingly personal conflict.

Vivian’s social intelligence and loyalty challenge Dante’s assumptions about both her and the bargain. Dante’s secrecy, possessiveness, and determination to reverse the blackmail place trust under constant pressure. The romance develops through negotiations over family duty, reputation, desire, and autonomy, with the lavish setting functioning as a system of expectations, not simple fantasy.

Huang uses the marriage-of-convenience structure to ask whether intimacy can survive when its foundation is coercive. Attraction does not erase the unequal choices that brought the couple together, so emotional progress depends on disclosure and accountability. As the Kings of Sin series opens, public power collides with the vulnerability required for a genuine partnership.