I died the night I caught my fiancé in bed with my sister.The worst part was not the betrayal.It was realizing they had stolen everything from me long before they took my life.When I wake up one year in the past on the morning of my wedding, I know exactly how my story ends if I marry Matteo De Luca.So instead of walking down the aisle, I walk into the church and propose to the last man anyone would expect.His older brother.Alessandro De Luca.The ruthless mafia heir of Palermo.Marrying him was supposed to save my life.So why does it feel like I've just started a war?

“Walk out of this room tonight without signing those papers, and your brother’s body will be floating near the Palermo docks before sunrise.”Sophia Rossi returned to Sicily for answers about her dead parents, not knowing her arrival would drag her straight into the dangerous world her father spent years trying to protect her from.One public slap was all it took to put her in Luca De Luca’s path.Cold, feared, and next in line to lead one of the most powerful mafia families in Palermo, Luca becomes the last man Sophia ever wanted tied to her life. But when a dark secret from the past resurfaces, Sophia is forced into a marriage neither of them wants while enemies begin circling from every direction.Now trapped inside the De Luca empire filled with blood, lies, betrayals, and deadly family secrets, Sophia realizes the biggest danger in Sicily may not be Luca himself… but the people standing closest to him.Because somebody is secretly turning both families against each other.And if the truth comes out, it won’t just destroy their marriage.It will start a war.

I gave up my inheritance, my family and my future for love.For ten years, I devoted myself to my husband, Mark Laurent, and our daughter, Sophie, believing sacrifice was what made a family strong.Then one night changed everything.When Mark, Sophie and his first love were kidnapped, I was the one who brought the ransom money through a storm. But instead of saving me, my husband and daughter begged me to stay behind in Bianca’s place.They promised they would come back for me.They never did.For three years, I was tortured, abandoned and forgotten while another woman slowly took my place in my own home.But the weak stay-at-home wife they left behind no longer exists.Now I’m back as the CEO of Valecrest Holdings.Powerful. Untouchable.And holding my husband’s entire future in my hands.But revenge becomes complicated when Lucien Knight enters my life, the cold billionaire who sees every broken part of me and still stays.Now my husband wants me back.Bianca wants me destroyed.And my daughter is slowly realizing the truth about the woman she chose over her own mother.This time, they’ll learn one thing the hard way.Their loser wife...is a big shot.