Seven Years as the Don's Secret

From the back cover

Elena has spent seven years at the side of Dante, the most powerful man in the Valenti family, after he once saved her from a scandal that was never her fault. On the night before their legal wedding, he calmly tells her he cannot make her his wife: the families of their world remember only what they saw, and a woman with a past like hers cannot be the wife of the Valenti Don. He offers her everything except that name, and when she refuses, he reminds her she has no parents and no family to fall back on.

Then a call from Bianca Romano, a sheltered young woman from an allied family whom Dante says he will one day marry, draws him away, and Elena learns how quickly his tenderness can be turned elsewhere. Pregnant and alone, she reaches out to an old friend, Claire, about a promise to help her leave.

At a private dinner where the allied families greet her as Mrs. Valenti, Elena must decide how much of this life she is still willing to wear.