In the opulent heart of shadowbrook a city where shadows dance with secrets. Cassandra vitale stands resolute. Orphaned at the age of 20, she poured her heart into building a haven for the lost — a string of orphanages that shimmered like beacons of hope in the city’s. But fate a cruel jester, dealt a devastating blow. Her beloved father’s passing left a gaping hole in her life and a chilling truth waiting to be unearthed.Her mother died of cancer when she was ten years old. She came back from her aunt’s place and got the information and also never saw her mother’s body.Two months after the passing away of her father came Anthony Caruso one of the city’s notorious mafia don. A man as ruthless as he was powerful, his name whispered round about with a mix of fear and reverence. His world, a brutal ballet of violence and shadows that stood in contrast to Cassandra’s relentless pursuit of good.Yet Anthony arrives at her doorstep with a proposition as cold as steel, Cassandra’s world is thrown in disarray.Bound by a secret pact her father made with the Don, a pact she knew nothing about, Cassandra is forced to make a heart wrenching Decision. Submit to Anthony’s demand and become his unwilling bride or watch her life’s work — the orphanages that sheltered countless lost soul — crumble to dust.

She spent twenty-six years learning to be invisible.One night in Meridian City changed everything.Vivienne Marlowe didn't come to Meridian City to fall in love. She came to survive — to escape the wreckage of her old life and prove, to herself mostly, that she was worth something beyond what she gave other people.Dominic Cole wasn't supposed to notice her. He does. And in a city built on illusions, a man who deals only in power is terrified by the one woman he cannot control — the woman beginning to learn she doesn't want to be.But when the city's most dangerous secrets come knocking — and they are all connected to Vivienne in ways she never imagined — she will have to decide: keep hiding, or burn the whole thing down.