Zayna Vale
Velina Merrano has spent her entire life trying to earn a place in a family that never truly wanted her. As the youngest child of the powerful Don Russello Merrano, she was raised inside a world of power, loyalty, and violence. But while her brothers were trusted and her sister adored, Velina was always treated like an outsider. No matter how much she sacrificed, it was never enough.
Then one night, everything falls apart.
Framed by her own sister for setting fire to a Merrano warehouse, Velina is dragged before her family and condemned without a chance to defend herself. Just as her father prepares to punish her in the most brutal way possible, gunfire erupts inside the mansion.
Their enemies have arrived.
At the centre of it all stands Don Luciano Diomani, the ruthless leader of a rival syndicate and one of the most feared men in the Underground. Cold, powerful, and dangerously perceptive, Before he is about to execute the entire Merrano family, they offer Luciano something he can not refuse. Velina... and she becomes the bargaining price to keep her family alive, to which Luciano happily accepts.
Now forced into a marriage with the enemy, Velina is pulled into a dangerous game of power, secrets, and betrayal. Because the man who now claims her as his wife may be the only one who knows the truth about who she really is...
And the family that raised her may have stolen far more than her childhood...
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