🌙 Prologue Bangkok, Thailand. A city of lights and shadows-where neon signs glow above streets painted with blood. The "Black Lotus Syndicate", the most feared mafia in Thailand, rules silently yet mercilessly. Its leader, Net Siraphop, is known as the untouchable king. With porcelain skin and a gaze that could freeze even the bravest, he is calm, calculated, and dangerously beautiful. People whisper his name with both fear and reverence. On the other side of the city lives JJ Radchapon, a sunshine boy. A college student with a smile so pure it feels like sunlight piercing through storm clouds. His dimples, warm laugh, and natural charm make him the center of every crowd. JJ's innocence draws people close-but hidden behind that glow, there are secrets even JJ himself tries to forget. When light collides with shadow, when innocence stumbles into danger-what happens when the coldest heart begins to burn for warmth?

Amelia Davenport died alone at the bottom of an embankment. Her last phone call was to her husband Matthew, who she had hoped would come rescue her. But Matthew hung up on her. And as he did she heard her own children's disparaging comments. Amelia Davenport had been a cut-throat business lawyer who climbed the ranks of the law firm Hoffman, Givens and Pratt, becoming the youngest Junior Partner in the firm's history. She had also co-authored law textbooks used by high school and college students. When the twins were born, the Davenports insisted Amelia stay home to raise them. So she did. But life didn't quite go the way Amelia planned and she found herself on the periphery more and more, an observer in her own family. Even Amelia had to wonder of her own family, if something were to happen to her, would they be sorry when she's gone?

Book One: Rose Murphy has always been the black sheep of her powerful mafia family. With an abusive, manipulative father and an overbearing mother, she wants to become a novelist and make a life for herself. Unfortunately for her, she's always being pulled back into their world. When she's down on her luck, her father gives her an ultimatum - work for him or work for his underboss, Aiden Fitzpatrick, as his child's nanny. This is a completely fictional, mafia-light romance, single POV, and first book in a series of interconnected stories about various prominent female characters in the fictional crime family.