Neglected

In the Luciano-Kwon syndicate, power is a birthright, and blood is a weapon. But for Gabriela, blood is just a stain.

Daughter to the infamous Latin-Italian Capo, Lorenzo Luciano, and the calculating, ice-cold Japanese-Korean-Chinese matriarch, Mei, Gabriela was born into a throne of shadows. But in a family built on legacy, she is the unintended afterthought-the least favorite, the forgotten heir.

While her older sister, Mei-Lian, is groomed for alliances and her six older brothers-Leonardo, Alfonso, Riccardo, Romeo, Francesco, and Junfeng-train to inherit the empire's violence, Gabriela exists on the periphery. She is the ghost in the mansion: ignored by her mother, dismissed by her father, and treated with cold contempt by her siblings.

Yet, this neglect has forged her into something the Famiglia never intended: observant, ruthless, and dangerously independent. She knows the secrets whispered in three languages, and she can move through the compound unseen.

The brothers-six towering figures who rule the organized underworld-are cruel but undeniably protective. Their dominance is suffocating; they push her away, yet their loyalty is a double-edged knife, ready to cut down anyone who dares touch their family burden.

But when a long-forgotten debt comes due, threatening to expose Gabriela to the most dangerous enemies the syndicate has ever made, the Famiglia is forced to finally look at their ghost. Now, Gabriela must navigate the viper's nest of her own home, where the only thing more deadly than the rivals outside is the family she desperately craves to escape.

Will the least-loved princess rise to command a dynasty, or will she be the first casualty of the war within her own bloodline?