"Keep looking at me like that, wife, and I might forget this marriage was supposed to be a contract." "Then try harder, husband. I don't belong to you." Smirking as he closes the distance. "That's where you're wrong, sweetheart. You became mine the moment you said,'I do.'" A contract marriage. Two rival mafia heirs. One dangerous secret. Lucia Moretti is forced to marry Killian Romano, the ruthless future king of the Irish Mafia, to unite their powerful crime families. To the world, Lucia is an obedient mafia princess. In secret, she is The Silver Serpent, the feared founder of La Notte Nera. For years, she has used her underground network to hunt the mastermind behind the plane crash that killed her mother and nearly took her life. As passion ignites between Lucia and Killian, the truth draws closer, and so does the danger. Because some secrets can destroy a marriage, and some truths can start a war.