The Family

Being born into into wealth -into power- can be a blessing, if you can keep it.

The Valencia Family is one of the oldest French/Italian families in the region, their money and influence extending from one side of the country to the next. However, wealth and power are things they have had to sweat, cry, and spill blood for. Lots of blood. How long will it be before it drowns them?

Sophia Valencia is the youngest of the three Valencia siblings. Sophia has avoided making herself a prominent figure in The Family, much to her father's disappointment. She loves every member of her family, but does not love all that they do. She has made it clear to everyone that she wants no part in the schemes, power-struggles, and bloodshed that is involved with The Family. Everything changes when she is unwillingly thrust into the chaos by a stranger with blue eyes, old scars, and beautiful tattoos, hiding secrets she is willing to go to great lengths to unearth... even if it means turning into exactly what she has tried so hard to avoid.

Sebastien Bardin has made it his mission in life to return honor to his family's name, but that means risking everything he has left in order to take everything he's never had. He is willing to lie, cheat, and kill to achieve his goal, and he is determined that nothing, and no one, will stand in his way. Much to his dismay, circumstances becomes increasingly more complicated when he meets a young woman who's hazel eyes he can't seem to decipher.

As Sophia and Sebastien navigate the Valencia Family's politics, friends, and enemies, both learn what it truly means to be a Valencia, and exactly what it takes to be a part of The Family.