While performing an autopsy on a victim of a gang shootout, forensic pathologist Elara Voss inadvertently "revives" Dante Rizzoli, the godfather of the North American Mafia; she is subsequently abducted and taken to his estate, where she is forced into marriage under threat of death. As she attempts to escape, she finds herself entangled in the betrayal of her fiancé—a police officer named Tyler—and the conspiracies of the Gallo family. Amidst Dante’s intense, conflicting emotions of extreme possessiveness and protectiveness, Elara’s fear gives way to wavering resolve; swept into an abyss of power struggles, familial treachery, and life-or-death crises, she ultimately becomes bound to Dante in a perilous, unbreakable romance.
