Mara stands frozen before the church altar as her fiancé Nico slides her bridal band onto her conniving half-sister Bianca and flees overseas. Rather than enduring years of gossip as a discarded victim, Mara turns straight to Vincent Moretti, the feared New York don who adopted Nico as a boy, proposing an immediate marriage of convenience that Vincent gladly accepts.
Five years later, Nico returns expecting a tearful, waiting ex-fiancée whom he can stash away as an obedient mistress. Instead, he discovers Mara presiding over the family empire as Vincent's respected wife, nursing Vincent's newborn daughter and holding absolute authority over Nico's criminal future.
