Lucia Vitale ran Brooklyn's most powerful mafia family until her husband Vito poisoned her and left her for dead five years ago. She escaped into exile in Sicily. Now she is back in New York under a false identity. Her one weakness is her sixteen-year-old daughter, Bella, who is interning at the family's nightclub, the very place that bears Lucia's name. Bella does not know her mother's real identity, and she is cornered in the back room by Gina, Vito's mistress, who styles herself Mrs. Vito, and by Gina's arrogant nephew, Tony.
Bella is made to eat garbage slop and humiliated before the staff. Lucia must decide how to protect her child without revealing herself too soon, because one mistake could bring the whole family down on her. The godmother has returned, and the people who betrayed her are about to learn what that means.
