Marcus Blake thought he was just the son of a local crime boss until three bullets and a dying confession revealed the truth - he's the lost heir to the Castellano empire, the most powerful mafia dynasty in America. With his father's killer on the loose and every crime family wanting him dead or controlled, Marcus must embrace the darkness he's fought against his whole life. But when the woman helping him get revenge turns out to be an FBI agent and his dead mother resurfaces with an army of her own, Marcus discovers that in the world of organized crime, everyone has secrets and no one can be trusted. To survive and claim his birthright, he must become more ruthless than his enemies and sacrifice the one thing he swore to protect - his humanity.