Chloe lives as the glamorous jewel of the New York underworld, balancing Hollywood stardom with her role as the exclusive companion to mafia godfather Vincenzo. For seven years she endures gilded captivity, believing real affection lies beneath his commanding exterior. Her gilded fantasy shatters during her lavish twenty-eighth birthday party, when she overhears Vincenzo dismiss her to his lieutenants as an expendable amusement.
Refusing to spend another day as a mobster's ornament, Chloe strips off her designer gown, empties her vanity, and vanishes to Paris to paint under an alias. When Vincenzo discovers her empty dressing room, pride gives way to frantic desperation. As he mobilizes his international syndicate to reclaim her, Chloe fights fiercely to defend her newfound artistic freedom.
