Taking Back an Unrequited Love

For ten years, Violet Ingram has stood beside Dominic Hayes, a gang leader who rose from a half-basement apartment to rule Westbrook's underworld. She followed him through chaos without ever asking for a title, believing his promise that once he went clean, he would marry her. But on the very day Dominic leaves the underworld behind, he slips a crystal shoe onto another woman's foot and tells Violet that Lily Morgan is too innocent to live the way she once did.

Cast aside after a decade, Violet clears her things from the mansion he is changing the locks on and returns to the club where his men once called her Mrs. Hayes. There, Dominic's suspicion and Lily's feigned innocence turn his old protectiveness against her. What he does not know is that Violet is the only daughter of an underground mafia king, and that her family has quietly prepared a good man, waiting only for her to say yes.

At twenty-eight, Violet is no longer the girl who would storm a club for him. Whether she walks away for good, or lets her own bloodline answer for ten wasted years, is hers to decide.