Life doesn’t always go according to plan. Bianca Denali is a good Catholic girl, following her mother’s instructions to a tee. One day, she will make a good wife for a good Italian man - or least a rich one. That’s the fate that has befallen her older sisters and she knows it will be hers as well. She just doesn’t expect that the day of reckoning will come before she can finish high school - or that the man who will come to whisk her away from her mother’s false platitudes and impossible expectations will be the devil’s right hand man. Not even God can save her from the fate her mother bestows upon her. But when you find yourself in a gilded cage, you have two options when learning to stand your ground against the most powerful man in the city - bite the hand that feeds you or become the one person he trusts with ALL of his secrets. This book is a prequel and should be read after reading at least the first 2 Barresi books, but preferrably the first 3 (The Emily trilogy). It can be read at any point after Surrender and will not spoil anything in books published after that point in the series. Follow Bianca’s transformation from meek and mild-mannered girl to the powerful mafia wife that greets readers in the first book in the Barresi series, Eyes of Stone. Trigger This book is dark romance and contains scenes that may be triggering for some including dubious consent and implied pet death. This book is not intended for children and should only be read by readers eighteen and older.