In the shadows of New York's criminal world, love is the most dangerous weapon of all. Nikolai Belsky is a Russian mafia lieutenant - unhinged, dangerous but loyal to a fault to the Kuzmin family. Catalina Russo is an Italian mafia princess trying to live an ordinary college life. With a boyfriend her father approves, she is ready to accept her boring future. They meet by chance at a family dinner - one glance and everything unravels. What should have been forbidden becomes inevitable. But when a man from Niko's past returns seeking revenge, Catalina becomes the bait meant to destroy him. Now, love and vengeance are on a collision course and Niko will burn the city to the ground to save the woman he's become obsessed with. A story of devotion and destruction, of two souls fated to find each other in the dark - and love each other anyway.