She rules the underworld. The only thing she can't control is how badly she wants the woman who told her no.
Valentina Castellano doesn't ask twice. As head of one of New Orleans's most powerful crime families, she's spent a decade making sure of that. But the night a knife wound drags her into a hospital ER, she meets someone who isn't impressed by her money, her name, or the ring on her hand — Brianna Hale, a nurse who stitches up her second-in-command without so much as a flinch, and tells Valentina exactly where to sit.
Brianna has built a careful, guarded life for herself and her six-year-old son, and she has no intention of letting a dangerous, magnetic stranger anywhere near either of them. But Valentina doesn't give up easily, and the harder Brianna pushes her away, the harder it becomes to ignore what's growing between them.
When a rival family sees Valentina's growing attachment as a weakness to exploit, the danger stops being hypothetical. Valentina will have to decide exactly how much she's willing to sacrifice to protect the two people who've cracked open a heart she thought was permanently closed. And Brianna will have to decide whether love is worth the risk of a world she swore she'd never let near her son.
A slow-burn, enemies-to-lovers sapphic romance about power, protection, and the terrifying vulnerability of finally letting someone in.