CHAPTER 1
CARMEN
Going to an adult club in a dominatrix outfit wasn’t the way Carmen had planned to spend Halloween. She’d rather be at the Detta mansion, making cupcakes with her honorary niece, Zoe. Instead, she had found an obscure “invitation” on her doormat, summoning her to go to this party tonight, or else…
Thinking back on the crumpled letter she’d stashed into her bodice, once again, a white-hot rage poured down her back like liquid fire. With Franco dead for a year now, she’d thought the days of people trying to blackmail her were over.
Clearly, she’d been wrong. Not only was she trying to keep two rivaling mobster families off her back, now she had to deal with extortion on a more personal level.
Meet me in the Purple Room at Club Obsidian tonight, or I will make the pictur
