She was promised to him before she could walk.
He spent his life keeping a promise she never knew existed.
Serena Vitelli thought she knew exactly who she was. She had a career she loved, a family she trusted, and a future that felt within reach.
But when a violent attack tears her world apart, the people closest to her are forced to reveal secrets they'd spent years protecting, and Serena discovers that the life she thought was hers was shaped by a past she was never meant to uncover.
Luca Morelli had lived with that truth far longer than she had.
Raised to one day lead one of New York's most powerful Mafia Families, he spent years protecting Serena from the dangers she'd never see, honouring a promise that demanded she never know the role he played in her life.
Loving her was always easy. Staying away was the impossible part.
As old enemies emerge from the shadows and long-buried secrets begin to unravel, Serena is forced to question everything she thought she knew about her past, her family, and even herself. Every answer uncovers another secret, every memory changes the shape of the last, and the life she thought she was building slips further out of reach.
Some people will stop at nothing to protect her.
Others will stop at nothing to possess her.
Caught between the weight of the past and the future she's desperate to claim, Serena and Luca must learn whether love can endure the truth...and the scars it leaves behind.
Some promises are made with love.
Others are paid for in blood.
