The Mob Heir's Bloodline Lie

For ten years Serena has paid for every mistake Nicole made, kneeling on broken ceramic in the rain and freezing in an ice-filled tub while Julian Sterling looked away. Now their daughter Mia lies dying in a hospital, and Serena blocks the blood bank, draws a handgun on the lead surgeon and demands a divorce before she will authorize the transfusion. Julian, sole heir to the Sterling syndicate that rules Port City's underworld, is stunned by her defiance.

He insists Nicole was called only because she shares Mia's rare blood type, but Serena knows the child is not her own and that the volunteer donation is a stage for his secret flame. As onlookers jeer and her mother-in-law screams, Julian signs the papers to save Mia, and Serena walks out of the hospital into Nicole's waiting tears.

With a pistol between her husband's eyes and a signed divorce in her purse, Serena must decide what is left of her once she stops bleeding for the Sterlings.