Mess with the Queenpin? Die!

Grace Hale's father let his mistress drive her mother to her death, and then decided to hand the Hale Gang to his son by that woman. Grace is a society daughter in the foreign concession of the city by day and the one who actually runs the gang in the alleys at night. She keeps up the appearance of being fragile and weak while she works in secret with a young commander whose own family has been stripped and disgraced, and the two of them go from suspecting each other to building a power base together. At a birthday banquet she lays out what her father did in front of the guests and sends him to the execution ground herself. She drops his surname for her mother's and takes the gang.