📖 Prologue: The Price of a NameRose had never asked for much. Growing up on the forgotten edges of the city, her ambition was simple: to make a name for herself, one honest day of work at a time. That ambition led her to the elegant, dust-scented home of an aging woman, where she found employment and the faint, comfortable illusion of an organized life.
But quiet lives don't last forever.
The old woman had a daughter—the infamous Miranda. To the outside world, Miranda was a ghost; in the hidden circuits of the underworld, she was the Empress of a secret, powerful ethnic empire, its influence reaching across international borders, its name whispered with fear by the most powerful figures in the Mafia world.
Miranda was dying.
And she needed an inheritor.
With the help of her mother, Miranda had secretly observed Rose. Rose, with her clean slate and fierce, untapped potential, was the perfect candidate—the outsider Miranda needed to ensure her legacy. One cold, rainy evening, Miranda confronted Rose with the impossible offer: take her place, inherit the empire, and command a fortune beyond imagining.
Confused and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the darkness Miranda represented, Rose declined.
Desperate for solid ground, Rose turned to the only people she trusted: her two closest friends. She needed their counsel, their clear heads. She needed them to confirm she had made the right, moral choice.
Unknown to Rose, her friends were devastated not by her peril, but by the wealth she had refused. Miranda's offer—which included a colossal, life-changing severance fee just for securing Rose's initial acceptance—was too massive to ignore.
They betrayed her.
And in that singular, greedy choice, they did not just destroy Rose's organized life; they successfully delivered her into a new, terrifying world she had no idea how to survive.
What happens next?find out….,,