Felicia Broderick had everything a woman could ask for, especially a woman who started with nothing. But when a secret love affair becomes a mind-boggling scheme involving murder, blackmail, and organized crime, she reaches back to her roots to find the toughness and tenacity to survive. Using her feminine charm, exotic beauty, and streetwise savvy, she concocts a scheme of her own to get her life back. Using a police detective as her source of information, she probes into the world of La Cosa Nostra and spins a web of mystery and murder that baffles both sides of the law. Learning the value of love too late, she embarks on a homicidal journey to make up for her past mistakes. Along the way, she discovers the dark side of her nature and struggles with the fear that she might never awaken from this lethal new identity.