The Westbrook dynasty has always understood power as something inherited, protected, and controlled—but lately, it’s love that threatens to destabilize everything.
Once the protected heart of a powerful crime family, Madeline Valenti vanished and took her light with her, leaving an empire fractured in her wake. Two years later, a suspicious death forces her return, drawing together estranged parents, loyal siblings, and dangerous allies beneath the weight of unresolved grief. As a new syndicate closes in, the Valentis must confront the truth that power built on fear cannot survive without love—and that the greatest threat to an empire is the family it fail
Mackenzie Vescari has always been protected. As the youngest child of one of the most powerful crime families in the world, she grew up wrapped in luxury, loyalty, and the unspoken promise that nothing would ever touch her. To her family, she is the princess—the one rule they refuse to break, the one weakness they will never admit to having. But power has a way of circling what it wants. At twenty-one, Mackenzie finds herself at the center of a world that is shifting. Old alliances strain.