Special Agent Dante Rossi infiltrated Il Cerchio to dismantle the empire of Donatella Moretti, The Widow. But the Queen of the inferno was waiting. Donatella blows his cover and forces him to become her Consigliere through a brutal act of blackmail, turning the hunter into her unwilling puppet.
Dante is violently remade in Donatella's image — measured, disciplined, and stripped of his former identity, his loyalty forged in fire and humiliation. He is her unwilling informant, her strategist, and the keeper of her deepest secrets. When an assassin targets Donatella, Dante instinctually shields her, taking a bullet that earns him a five-year prison sentence.
Years later, he walks free to find the Queen has not only waited but orchestrated their future, ready to claim the devoted alpha she had painstakingly created.
