Widowed and pregnant, she finds shelter with the brother who despised her.
Ivy witnesses her husband George gunned down while carrying their child. His mother whisks the widow into the Harcourt family's New York stronghold, where George's brother Edward greets her with open hostility. The fragile truce shatters when Ivy's own brother, desperate for gambling money, snatches her to terminate the pregnancy. Edward tracks them down and executes the kidnapper, binding their fates through blood and obligation. As the heir grows inside her, animosity between Ivy and her dangerous protector twists into a fierce, complicated devotion neither anticipated.
mafia
romance
secret-baby
revenge
What draws you in
Murder witnessed by pregnant wife
Ruthless mafia brother turns protector
Kidnapping forces deadly confrontation
You'll love it if
You crave enemies-to-lovers tension inside a high-stakes crime family.