Gilded Cages

When living in a world that has Mafia families instead of politicians, the rules for citizens are simple:

1. Money will likely be your answer to most issues, or integrity. It depends on where you live.
2. Live your life, do your jobs, kill if you want to, but don't mess with the crime families. Normally easy depending on which territory you live in.
3. Should you agree to join a group in control, be warned. You will enter a different world with different rules.
4. If you are a woman, you might just have the chance of becoming a trophy.

For the women who have become a Trophy, life may seem great, but everything comes with a cost. Here are your rules:
1. Enjoy your life of luxury, never having to lift a finger, as long as you don't mind being watched and monitored as well.
2. Act as the eyes and ears of your boss.
3. Get used to assassination attempts. Trophies are to mafia families what flags are to countries.
4. As a trophy, any mistake, any misstep, anything you do that can be remotely considered bad or betrayal, will cost you your life instantly.
5. Say goodbye to your past. Your friends, your family, your dreams and aspirations, all of them.

With all these rules in mind, Marlena would spend her entire life making it clear she wanted nothing to with the mafia. That is until the day her lover died, and she realized that the only way she can find the clues and ability to avenge his death is through one dangerous family.
A new crime organization looking to gain more power and expand their domain, who could also benefit from her skills and abilities just as she could them.