A beautiful ballerina finds herself drawn to a powerful mafia boss whom the world believes is dead. As their forbidden romance deepens, she is pulled into the dangerous underworld he has been hiding from, and the secret of his survival threatens them both.
at dinner my father looks like he's aged a decade evelyn are you sure once that letter hits his desk there's no turning back it's over the corrigans go way back in this country samuel corrigan is the city's golden boy rich lethal and every girl's wet dream my parents have spent their lives taking for their looks they are terrified i'd get dragged down with them five years ago
my dad pulled samuel's mom out of a car accident he begged for the engagement to shield me i'll admit the protection of the corrigan name did buy us some peace no one has the balls to insult my parents to their faces anymore but things went south before the wedding samuel visited us in philly under his mother's orders he took one look at my father's face and ran for the hills
by the time we moved to new york for the wedding he was already married dad you can't force a spark that isn't there did he did he ever see your face my hand freezes for a split second unlike my parents i was born dangerously beautiful and beauty brings That's why they hid me.
Yeah, he saw me. A total lie. Samuel wants nothing to do with me, and I'm fine with that. I'm not going to get in the way of his new life.
What he thinks of my face doesn't matter anymore. I thought Samuel and I were done, but this afternoon, he shows up out of nowhere at my Evelyn Selwyn? What the hell are you playing at?
Well, look who it is.