"I'm Isa Borgia, the only daughter of the most powerful Don in Corvina.
A marriage of convenience isn't something I can escape — every family in our world is bound by alliance, not love. But if I can't choose my husband, the least I can do is choose my own engagement ring.
At the mafia auction, the moment I raise my paddle for the final lot — a flawless diamond ring — an arrogant voice cuts in from behind me.
""A country bumpkin like you thinks you can compete with me? Do yourself a favor and leave.""
The woman who steals my ring is Sofia Lopez, the spoiled godsister of my own fiancé, Luca Marino. She humiliates me in front of the entire hall, orders her men to crush my fingers — and Luca, the man meant to protect me, just watches. Worse, he lets her go further.
They think I'm a nobody from nowhere, someone with no name and no power behind her.
Then my father walks through those doors.
In one single night, the balance of power in Norham City flips completely. The once-untouchable Marino family falls to its knees. The ""beloved godsister"" who tortured me ends up caged like the animal she always was.
But I'm not interested in simple forgiveness.
I want them exposed in front of all Five Families — stripped of every lie, every illusion of power — and I want to watch, with my own eyes, as they walk straight into the ending I've already written for them.
I'm a Don's daughter. I don't beg for love, and I never settle for losing.
This time, I'm the one who makes the rules."
