Alice in the Lion's Den

"You aren't in wonderland, anymore, Alice." Leo whispered. "You're in the Lion's den. No one will hurt you here." His thumb caressed a stray lock of hair. "No one, except for me."

After escaping death as a child, Alice Covelli, the sole heir of one of the most dangerous mafia families, takes a new identity, blending perfectly into the San Francisco landscape. Fourteen years later, twenty one year old Alice, unwittingly, takes a trip to the last place she should be in. Suddenly she finds herself face to face with not only the horrors of her past but also the boy who invokes long-buried memories from her childhood.

Only he's not a boy anymore.

Leo Varano, the oldest son and monstrous heir of the head of New York Costa Nostra, has enough sin in life, that his very name leaves terrors in its wake. In the midst of his life passing through an abyss of violence, blood and pain, a young woman is bought to him, fourteen years too late. She holds the secret to retrieving large Varano assets stolen by her father. Leo fights every force that threatens to touch Alice, while mercilessly trying to break the spirit of the girl to whom he had once promised the world.