For ten years, Laney Corrigan gave Massimo Lombardo a daughter, a surrendered career, and a history worthy of the Lombardo name, asking only that the billionaire she married never enter his family's mafia life.
She worked alone on a forgotten corner of the estate and taught herself that staying unseen was the cost of that marriage.
Vittoria Greco, the heiress his mother always preferred, decides a mafia heir belongs with a mafia princess, and Massimo, who never had an afternoon for his wife, now sits beside Vittoria every day while his mother demands a grandson and his brother mocks the American in her sandbox.
Laney leaves her wedding ring where he will find it and goes to Rome, where the career she abandoned is still waiting.
Three days later a photograph appears, and when she comes home Vittoria is ready to describe what happened in her bed.
Getting Laney back will take more than money or the family name: Massimo must give up the palazzo, stand against his dangerous family, and grovel with his own hands before they bury her for good.
