The Mafia's gold and the girl they all wanted

At thirteen, Sophie Vincenzo hid in a wardrobe and watched her parents die at the hands of Scofield Tyrone's men. She survived, but the little girl she had been died that night.

Jackie Graham, a feared gangster bound to a crime lord, was never meant to be her guardian. But guilt over what his own men did to her family made him her silent protector. When a nightclub operation goes horribly wrong, Sophie's best friends, Cynthia and Vine, disappear into a human-trafficking network, Sophie narrowly escapes the same fate when Jackie intervenes and takes her somewhere safe. For the first time in years, she has someone she can trust.

Jackie teaches her how to survive a city where innocence is a liability and beautiful smiles hide murderous intentions.

Three years later, Sophie is twenty, and the line between protector and something more is crumbling. Then Scofield offers Jackie a place at his side in the hunt for a billion dollars in gold. It's enough money to save Jackie's dying mother, and enough danger to expose Sophie to the man who murdered her parents.

Sophie answers with a plan: get close to Scofield, betray him, and steal the gold while the crime houses tear each other apart. Jackie agrees. He doesn't know she never planned to run.

She wants vengeance. She wants her friends back. She wants an empire no crime lord can touch. When grief and secrets drive them apart, Jackie must face the possibility that the woman he loves has become everything he feared.

In a world where loyalty is bought with blood and love is the most dangerous betrayal, nobody decides Sophie's fate but her.