To the world, Diego is a merciless mafia godfather; to Isabella, he is the man who saved her from a massacre and raised her as his own. He is her entire world, and her greatest, most forbidden love. He taught her strength, strategy, and survival—everything except how to guard her heart against him. After a confession met with cold rejection and a betrayal he orchestrated to push her away, Isabella finally decides to escape his gilded cage. Diego’s desperate, last-minute reckoning at the airport cannot undo the new secret growing inside her, nor the web of conspiracies—drugging, kidnapping, false betrayal—that now ensnares them. A love built on protection and possession turns to ash when a bullet meant for her tears through him, exposing every brutal truth in a wash of blood. In the aftermath, under the stark lights of a dancer’s stage, they must decide if a love born from sin and devotion can finally find its rightful name.
