All legacies are built on blood and grief. Charlie has only ever known responsibility and sacrifice. As an original heir of The Twelve Families of Las Vegas, he has been raised to follow his duty of protecting their secrets. But one woman threatens it all with her soft smiles and aversion to cursing when she witnesses something she shouldn't. His code of doing what he's told leads him to an obsession that irrevocably changes his life and that of everyone around him. Evelyn is Charlie's opposite in every way, with a big heart and dreams that allow him to think of a future. Her search for her birth parents doesn't lead to fruitful results, but she finds a bigger family than she could anticipate. ** This is not a romance **