Violet Manconi is the assassin her family keeps in the shadows.
Nina Bianco is the bride their enemies intend to trade for power.
During a routine execution inside Manhattan’s most exclusive mafia nightclub, Violet meets a beautiful stranger beneath the disco ball.
Nina asks her to dance.
Their kiss lasts only a moment. The consequences begin when Nina enters a locked office and finds Violet standing over a murdered consigliere.
Nina escapes with the Viper’s identity but tells no one.
Days later, their families bring them face-to-face again. Nina’s father is arranging a husband for her, and Violet’s brother Leonardo believes marrying the Bianco daughter will secure his rise through New York’s criminal hierarchy.
Nina wants nothing to do with him.
Leonardo orders Violet to change her mind.
The assignment becomes a kidnapping. Inside an isolated forest cabin, Nina is expected to surrender her freedom and agree to marry Violet’s brother. Instead, she fights every lock, every threat, and every attempt to make her obedient.
Violet should break her resistance.
She begins falling for it.
