Dante Derimond is well known around the world as a mafia lord, following in his father's footsteps he wants to make it big, but he doesn't want to do it alone and there is only one person he wants standing next to him and it's not the woman his father is trying to get him to marry. It's the love of his life, Angel Summers. Angel vanished after a brutal attack on her family left her homeless. Living on the streets and keeping to the shadows have only been her way of coping, even if it meant killing men along the way. She was well trained by her father, Dante's father's right hand man, and she is the only one who will bring a knife to a gun fight. What happens when Dante finds Angel? The one person who can make him bend at will to anything from his past, but she's not the same woman he knew years ago. A lot has happened to her while in hiding and all she wants is vengeance on the people who killed her mother, but what happens when Dante wants to help her. A knife to the throat won't stop him, not even if she draws blood, he will help her and make her his once again.