The Don Made Me Fake My Death, Then Lost Me Forever

Dante Cordano, the Don who swore to destroy her family, took Chiara Gariboldi from her own engagement party and kept her on his Vienna estate. He wiped out the gangs that had humiliated her, put her name on his agreements and gave her a share of the Rhine shipping profits, so all of Europe believed she was his cherished weakness. In truth she was a gilded target, and his first love, Isabella Marchi, was alive all along.

When Isabella returns, she reclaims what was promised to her: the floating casino once named for Chiara is repainted The Isabella, and Dante tells Chiara to be content. Then he presses a syringe of nerve agent into her hand and asks her to stage her own death, so a coffin can leave the cemetery and a helicopter carry her to Switzerland under a new name.

Chiara flees to the Gariboldi estate and begs Marco Ferri, her former fiancé, to take her away. Instead her family gathers around an urn and blood packs: Cordano has traded three docks for her dignified death. With nowhere left in the world, she raises the needle to her own neck.