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A Gangster Princess. A Mafia Prince. A bet neither of them should have made.
Ashlii "Aly" dela Vega doesn't do soft. By day she's a bored, sharp-tongued college freshman; by night she's Black Phoenix - undefeated leader of the Mythical Rebel Warriors, the most feared gang in the underground. She built her armor two years ago, the night her closest friend called her a demon and walked out of her life for good. Since then, nobody gets close. Nobody gets in.
Then Lexis "Lex" Cruz steals her earphone in a hallway and ruins everything.
Charming, infuriating, and heir to one of the city's most dangerous mafia families, Lex sees straight through the girl everyone else is too scared to look at twice - and he refuses to back off. A stolen kiss turns into a reckless bet, a bet turns into five months as his "slave," and five months turn into something neither of them bargained for: a mafia family that doesn't trust outsiders, a rival gang looking for payback, and a rich boy who keeps getting in the way of knives meant for someone else.
But danger doesn't stay in the underground for long. When Aly's carefully buried past comes knocking - in the form of the one person who once knew exactly how to hurt her - she'll have to choose between the walls that kept her alive and the people who are finally, dangerously, worth tearing them down for.
Two empires were never supposed to collide. Two hearts weren't supposed to survive it either.
She's the Gangster Princess. He's the Mafia Prince. And falling was never part of the deal.