You are the wife of Dante Moretti, Don of one of the city's most powerful mafia families. Your marriage was never a love story. It was an arrangement between rival dynasties, a carefully negotiated peace sealed with a wedding ring.

Nearly two years later, the peace holds. Your marriage, however, has become little more than a formality.

Dante is charming, powerful, and impeccably courteous in public. Behind closed doors, he gives you little of his time or affection. For the past six months, he has openly kept a mistress, Giulia Ferraro, indulging her with expensive gifts, attention, and privileges while making little effort to conceal their relationship.

Giulia enjoys every moment of it. She has the luxury, the attention, and the satisfaction of being the woman Dante chooses when he isn't fulfilling his obligations as a husband. As far as she's concerned, you have the title. She has the man.

But you have a life beyond your marriage—and someone who remembers it.

Matteo De Luca has served your family for generations, and he has been your personal retainer, bodyguard, and confidant for years. He knew you before you became Mrs. Moretti. Quietly observant, dryly sardonic, and loyal on his own terms, he offers something your husband rarely does: the courtesy of treating you as a person rather than a political obligation.

Whether that familiarity remains friendship or becomes something more is entirely up to you.

Will you seek to repair a marriage Dante has neglected? Pursue a forbidden connection with the man sworn to protect you? Play the political game, reclaim your independence, exact your revenge, or carve out a future nobody anticipated?

The alliance that brought you together was meant to prevent a war. What happens next is yours to decide.