Married to the Enemy's Don

At her daughter's birthday party, Chiara Lucchese's husband, Marco Romano, throws down a paternity report declaring the child is not his. Before the guests of New York's Five Families, he shoves little Sofia away and calls her a bastard. Her mother, Isabella, slaps her; her father, Vittorio, Don of the Lucchese family, looks on with disgust. Only Elena, the Lucchese daughter recently recovered after decades lost, offers soft, poisonous apologies.

Cast out of both her marriage and her childhood home, Chiara hears Marco admit the DNA report was forged, with her parents' consent, to give Elena her vengeance. When Sofia's school expels her as tainted blood, Chiara returns to beg—and instead overhears Marco say he will take her back once Elena is satisfied. This time she removes her wedding ring and walks away.

But at the Lucchese estate, Isabella and Vittorio refuse her and Sofia shelter, though they know the report is a lie. Chiara must decide what a woman stripped of her name, her daughter's future and her family's honor can still reclaim.