The tall menacing figure stood over me with the stench of death. "I'm not trying to hurt you." He spoke, his voice soft and genuine, "But... what they did to you." He stopped thinking of his next words, I knew he was referring to the torture that haunted my every dream. "It's slowly killing you." He exhaled a pained sigh. He knelt down beside me, lifting my head slightly so I was looking him dead in the eyes. I took a shaky breath, 'he was dead. I watched him die.' I thought to myself unable to speak. I let out a soft sob. "This is going to hurt, but... In order to fix you." He stopped standing back up and turning around, his voice turned cold and his face hardened. I could tell he didn't want to say it. "In order to fix you." He started again. "I need to make you bleed." Katarina Ophelia James Grant isn't just your average teenage girl, she's fierce, strong and determined. She's a fighter.

Isabella Garcia is a straight A student, when her mum died her tarnished fate is left in the hands of her father and step-mother. She has a plan to get out of this life but will she make it?

She thought she was escaping the past - but she walked straight into the heart of the mafia. Ophelia Kingston was no stranger to pain. Orphaned young and adopted at nine, she finally found peace - until her adoptive father died in the military and shattered the world she'd rebuilt. When her mother remarries and moves to Italy, Ophelia is thrown into a strange new life... with a dark undercurrent. Four stepbrothers. One adopted stepsister. A powerful new family that owns more than they let on - and hides more than she could ever guess. In a mansion full of secrets and under a roof ruled by power, Ophelia begins to uncover the truth. Danger, loyalty, and forbidden ties blur the lines between love and survival in this gripping tale of a girl who must find her strength in a world built on blood.