Cast Out by the Mob, My Whole Family Ascended

Selina was the wrong daughter. The Moretti family had raised her for seventeen years, believing she was theirs—until the real heiress, Isabella, came home. Isabella was jealous of every moment of love Selina had ever received. She lied, schemed, and whispered poison until Selina was thrown out like garbage. Selina returned to a crumbling Brooklyn apartment, expecting the worst. She found a family drowning in medical debt, threatened by loan sharks, and one breath away from losing everything. But the Morettis didn't know what Selina had built in secret. She was the top student of legendary designer Lina. The daughter of the Romano family—New York's most powerful mafia clan—was her biggest fan. And Julian, the son of the NYPD commissioner, had been desperately in love with her for years. Selina didn't just survive. She built a company. She used her family's hidden talents—her mother's fried chicken, her father's business acumen, her brother's photographic memory, her sister's flawless taste—to turn their lives around. Isabella tried to destroy her again. Every scheme backfired. The Moretti family fell into the pit they had dug for Selina. She didn't need their name. She made her own.