The Don Prayed for Me, Then Betrayed Me

On the East Coast, the devotion of Lorenzo Vitale is the stuff of legend. The youngest Don of his crime family cold, untouchable, master of the ports and the money that moves in the dark, once took nineteen bullets to shield Elena, and every year climbs a frozen Italian mountain to spend a month on his knees, praying for her. Elena believes she’s the most beloved woman alive.

Then she finds the video. Her best friend, Mara Rossi, stands at the foot of those same holy peaks, cradling a smiling five-year-old and on the man’s wrist beside her is the prayer bracelet Elena wove for Lorenzo with her own hands. While he knelt “praying for her survival,” he was fathering a secret child with the friend she trusted most.

In the same breath, a doctor confirms Elena is two months pregnant. Numb, heartbroken, and finally clear-eyed, she makes a choice no one expects and the legendary love story everyone envied begins to burn. What does a betrayed woman do when the most dangerous man on the coast still believes she’s his?