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Seventeen-year-old Iris Monroe escapes a nightmare after witnessing her father's fatal rage against her mother. With her two younger brothers ,she flees into the night, determined to protect what's left of her family. But life on the streets is cruel. Honest work pays too little, and when the youngest brother dies of pneumonia, Iris is shattered.
Desperate and angry, Iris finds work at an underground club-a smoky den of secrets and shadows. There she meets Dante Moretti, a dangerous and magnetic mafia boss with a soft spot for the girl with fire in her eyes. But love in the underworld comes with a price, and as Iris sinks deeper into a life of crime, she must decide how much she's willing to lose to keep what she has left.