A dark Mafia romance of survival, vengeance, and the quiet power of healing. Lyssa Celeste Vaelora has known nothing but silence. Born into a house where love was a weapon and cruelty was law, her life became a maze of bruises, broken bones, and fear too deep to scream. For five years, she endured alone-after her older brother was taken to safety. Lyssa had been too young. When she finally calls for help-broken, bleeding, barely breathing-it isn't Lucien who answers. It's Damien. And it's Damien who rescues her. Now, hidden within the Black Family estate, Lyssa must learn to live in a world that doesn't hurt. Surrounded by the people who would burn the world to protect her-her brother, the Mafia family that took him in, and Damien, whose silence holds more affection than she's ever known-she begins to learn what it means to feel. And he'll wait as long as it takes... Because the moment she whispered his name, he knew he was hers.