Chapter 1

The year is 1925 in New York's Lower East Side. The roaring twenties, as they say. Jazz. Flapper girls. Speakeasies. Prohibition. Charlie Chaplin. Diamonds. Bobcuts. And the Mafia, watching everyone's every move, control of New York in merely the palms of their hands... Layla Dalgarno is a badass. She's the daughter of one of the city's most powerful gang leaders. She always gets what she wants, never anything less. Not afriad of anything or anyone, she is sent out to take care of some business. Business that may or may not result in a few casualties. But for the first time, Layla is tangled up in her own deceit when she finds herself facing a threat: a self-proclaimed rebel, Zayn Malik, arguably the most feared man in all of New York...