Prohibition and the war is over, it's the late forties. Some of the families that made their fortunes from illegal alcohol now turned to other underground methods of acquiring their gains. Including trying to take it from others in the way of protection money while most other families turned to more honest gains. Legal or illegal ethnic families were still tighter than ever, holding on to the families' united values. Segregation is predominate for all ethnic and religious groups. Anybody from outside their religious or ethnic group trying to marry in is frowned upon. This book is a romance and action story where such an outsider marries into the family and is not only accepted; he ascends to the top of the family.