Two rival mafia families. One Christmas truce. One forbidden night that changes everything.
Valentina Velez has spent her entire life under her father’s thumb — the perfect daughter, the obedient heir. But behind the mask she wears to the annual Christmas gala, she’s suffocating.
Aurora Sinclair wasn’t supposed to fall for her target. She was supposed to kill Don Velez and disappear. Clean. Professional. No complications.
Then she sees Valentina.
One dance becomes a conversation. A conversation becomes a confession. A confession becomes a night in a private suite where two women from opposite sides of a war discover that some connections are worth more than blood and loyalty.
But dawn always comes. And in their world, love is the most dangerous weapon of all.
When the masks come off, the real identities are revealed — and with them, a betrayal that will echo through a decade.
A bittersweet standalone prequel to The Empresses series. Set ten years before SWORN.
Content includes: explicit sapphic scenes, light BDSM, mafia violence, power dynamics
