The Mafia Boss Who Loves Me

Lucy's mother needs an operation in Chicago in 1994 and the money for it is not there. Lucy is engaged, and at the wedding her fiancé and her uncle sell her off. Ace Cavallo takes her out of it. She had met him once already without knowing who he was, when she bandaged a wound for a stranger and he told her afterward that she was his wife. He runs a crime family and people in the city are afraid of him. His offer is thirty days as his wife in exchange for the surgery. Lucy takes it, then learns he had paid for the operation before he ever asked her. She lives through betrayals inside his organization and attacks from outside it, and what she finds under the violence is a man who is steady about her. She tells him she loves him. Then the Carters take her, and Ace sits down at a blackjack table over it.