My Mother Saved Her First Love and Buried Her Own Son

Twenty years ago, a mother chose her first love over her family. On the day of her baby daughter's christening, a chain of cars folded like crushed tin, and she pulled away every man who might have saved her husband and infant. The smell of blood turned her first love's stomach, so the doctors tended his scrape instead. Father and daughter died in the place meant to save them, and the surviving girl was thrown out like something the famiglia was ashamed to claim.

Now she sits at the head of the Greco Syndicate, an empire worth tens of billions behind clean and legitimate fronts. When five young associates are brought in to be made, she sees the file of Marco Rossi, whose bloodline carries two names she will never forget. She casts him out without reason, and he warns her not to regret it. But his mother is Vittoria Rossi, the Donna of the Rossi Family, and arrangements between the houses hang in the balance.

Unmoved, she orders every job the boy touched pulled for her office. The past has a long memory, and so does she.