My life was perfectly boring until he walked in. Elliot Walker, the school's golden boy with a reputation for breaking hearts. Now, he's set his sights on me, Everly Gray, the quiet girl with grey eyes and a life built on carefully guarded secrets. He's turning my world upside down, and the biggest secret of all, hidden within the pages of my lost journal, is about to be exposed.

After the death of her mother, Tori Miller discovers a hidden file and journal revealing her true identity as the secret daughter of the retired Italian mafia Don, Valente Ferrari. Raised in New York, knowing nothing of her father's dangerous world, Tori must now decide if she dares to step into the shadows of her family's past. A journey to Italy awaits, promising answers, danger, and a destiny she never knew she had.

Everly Gray's life is a carefully constructed facade of normalcy, built to survive the cutthroat world of a high school dominated by the wealthy and privileged. Her grey eyes, a constant reminder of the birth parents who abandoned her, also caught the attention of her loving adoptive parents, the Youngs. Everly prefers the quiet privacy of her life, working at a flower shop and saving up, her only solace her best friend, Abby. But her world is about to be irrevocably disrupted by the arrival of Elliot Walker, a rich, enigmatic Brit whose casual cruelty has broken countless hearts. As their paths collide, Everly finds herself drawn into a dangerous dance with the one person she swore to avoid, risking not just her carefully guarded peace, but the secrets she keeps buried deep within her journal.