Returned to the Ashfords as their missing daughter, Tessa Quinn is met with ridicule instead of love. Branded a country girl and overshadowed by Lily, the family’s adored fake heiress, she refuses to beg for a place at the table. But Lily keeps pushing, turning humiliation into a kidnapping plot. When the Ashfords finally learn who Tessa’s foster father really is—a feared former mafia king hiding behind the calm of a gym owner—it’s already too late. Tessa has stopped waiting for their acceptance and found where she belongs.