Athena De Santi. Lawyer, Single mother, At least to the outside world that's what she is.
To the underworld she's La Regina Perduta (Hade's Queen) deadly, beautiful, an assassin who has never missed a target in her life, and Giovanni's Queen.
And not a second too soon for him.

She has lived a  shadowed life for far too long, to the world it appears that she is a confident loving mother ready to destroy anybody to save her little princess.

In truth she does have a daughter, a seven year old princess she must be the best mother she can be to protect this young innocent from her enemies.

Because a second with her has the potential of shattering him to a million tiny fragments.

However, he's about to find out she's not the easiest target to hit, or the type of woman who is easy to kill.

Especially not when she has secrets, and vengeance, of her own to redeem and a daughter to save.
She's all they fear.

And that is why he must tread very, very lightly.

Time is running out.

Fate holds all the cards now.

May God save those who dare to hurt her little girl.

HADE'S QUEEN (LA REGINA PERDUTA)

Athena's eyes began to follow Giovanni as he walked over to the bar. She had never seen a man so handsome in all her life, with his blue eyes and dark hair that was slicked back. He must have felt her gaze on him because he turned around just then, their eyes met for a brief moment before she looked away coyly. She didn't want to seem too eager for this encounter but it was difficult not to feel attracted by his magnetism. 


She guessed Giovanni's age at about twenty-five years old which typically wasn't much older than Athena herself but boy did she wish she could be twenty again! A few minutes later he approached her table where she sat alone looking out amongst the crowd of people who would be viable targets for the night. 


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