Withered Rose

Everyone in the Lombardi empire thinks they know why the Echo Park "street rat" finally snapped. They see a heartless woman who threw soup at her sister-in-law, abandoned a billion-dollar legacy, and walked away from the golden heir of the city’s most powerful crime family. But the secret isn’t that Elena Lombardi stopped loving her husband; the secret is that she died a year ago in a hospital room while he was with another woman, and the person leaving him now is the survivor he wasn't prepared to face. She’s no longer the grieving wife or the silent shadow—she’s the girl who remembers how to fight, and she’s about to show the Lombardis that the only thing more dangerous than a woman with everything to lose is one who has already lost it all.