Lia doesn’t want to be a Mafia Boss, but she’s the last of the family. She cannot allow Gramps’ life’s work to perish with him. Officer Bill Hart saw her on the docks in the worst part of the city in the wee hours of the morning. A cop and a Mafia Boss? Impossible. But loneliness grabs the heart and the pull of possibilities defies logic and reason. Can he be her confidant and avoid the lure of her big brown eyes? Not a chance. It comes down to life or death. Two disparate lives face mortality and reach for salvation in each other’s arms.