I grew up believing I was safe. My father was always there, present, protective, impossibly devoted. He spoiled me without hesitation, sent me to private all-girls Catholic schools, kept me wrapped in full-time security, and made sure I was kept far away from the world he lived in. I never questioned it. I never had a reason to. My mother spoke of my father with love, but she kept me far from anything tied to his world, and I learned early not to ask about the life she refused to let me see. Then Cassian Moretti came into my life. Powerful. Feared. Untouchable. The kind of man who could ruin lives with a single word. The moment our paths crossed, he looked at me like I was guilty of a crime I didn't commit. I had no idea why. Or that my life was built on a lie. Hidden beneath decades of silence is a secret powerful enough to start a war between New York's most dangerous crime families. A secret that ties my family to Cassian's in ways neither of us can escape. He wants answers. I want the truth. But the closer we get, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Because some secrets were buried for a reason. And if Cassian discovers who my father really is before I do... Loving me may become the one thing he can never forgive.