Aria Moretti has never known freedom. As the only daughter of Luca Moretti—Rome’s most feared mafia king—her life has always been a carefully controlled performance. She is poised, perfect, and untouchable. But behind the designer gowns and glassy smiles lies a soul suffocating beneath the weight of legacy.
Now, at just twenty-two, Aria is being handed over like a pawn in a blood-soaked alliance—forced into a strategic marriage with Damiano Rizzo, the cold and calculating heir to the Naples cartel. Their union is meant to silence old feuds and cement a new empire. To the world, it’s a fairytale. To Aria, it’s a prison sentence.
Until the vow is interrupted by a ghost from her past.
Nico D’Angelo, the former enforcer who once risked everything to protect her, returns after five years in the wind—scarred, hunted, and burning with a dangerous truth. He storms into the ceremony with one goal: to stop the wedding and expose the web of betrayal Aria was never meant to uncover.
What begins as a defiance of tradition spirals into a collision of secrets, vengeance, and forbidden desire. As Aria flees the only world she’s ever known with the one man her family wants dead, she’s pulled into a deadly game of deception—where the line between loyalty and love blurs, and every vow has a price.
But Damiano Rizzo isn’t letting her go quietly. And in a world where betrayal is currency, power demands sacrifice, and love is the deadliest weakness of all… Aria will have to decide what kind of queen she wants to be:
The one they created.
Or the one who burns their empire to the ground.