Rising From Ashes: The Don's Lost Queen

I gave up the peace of a civilian life to marry Dante, the most cold-blooded Don this city has ever known.

For years, I managed the chaos of his life and respected his lethal secrets.

But everything changed the moment he took a young soldier named Tess as his private secretary.

He let her sit in the passenger seat of his armored SUV—a spot strictly reserved for me—and even allowed her to answer his encrypted burner phones.

When I found her lipstick in his car, he simply said, "Don't be so paranoid."

I knew then that we were over.