Working at her uncle’s bakery in Little Italy to earn enough money to go to school, Francesca lives a carefree life. But when a terrible attack leaves her traumatized and, worst of all, pregnant, she begins to worry about her future. With no money and no husband, she’ll be at the mercy of her traditional community who look down on young unwed mothers.

Luckily for Francesca, a handsome, well-dressed, charming man comes to offer her a solution. He will marry her and care for the baby as his own. In exchange, she simply has to agree to accept him for who he is and give him the chance to have a family. It sounds like the perfect deal. It’s only after she agrees to marry him that Francesca realizes she may have made a mistake. Her husband is a mafioso in the Santarossa crime family. When trouble follows him home and gets her involved, she has to put aside her prejudice about her husband, or lose him forever.