I’m the princess of the mob, the only surviving member after a gang war left me an orphan.
My aunt is desperate. Maybe that’s why she sold me.
My would-be husband is an evil man. He wants to hurt me because of something my parents did.
But then I meet a man, six and a half feet tall with a muscular body, intense, possessive eyes, and silver hair. He has a way of making me feel wanted.
He’s Luca Lucciano, the leader of the Lucciano mob, one of the most powerful and ruthless men in the city.
He kisses me. He does more than kiss me.
But he knows he can’t have me.
And even if he could…would he really want me after one night?
He’s forty-two and experienced. I’m a twenty-year-old virgin, living a sheltered life under the watch of my mean aunt.
Luca leaves me with a gift, a tattoo of a bird on my ankle.
“Think of me when you look at it. Think of this night. It’s freedom, Lena.”
I do, on my wedding night. I remember the passion I shared with Luca, and then I hear it.
A gunshot.
The guards are shouting.
Is Luca going to save me after all?