Sometimes when young love strikes, you have to grow up in a hurry.

Growing up so close to the powerful Romano family, twenty-year-old Caterina Russo has always been good buddies with their youngest son, Luciano. How could she predict that being sent to fetch him downstairs for dinner with their families would bring her face-to-face with his latest lover-or worse, that she'd be so suddenly smitten by him? Any such feelings must immediately be quashed, buried too deep to ever threaten her again.

Stellina-Luciano's little star. He has always planned to put a ring on Caterina's finger, just not yet. No need to clip his wings at only twenty-five, not even for her. So why does he find himself monitoring her every move, rescuing her from dangerous situations, and instantly enraged if another man so much as looks at her? And what can he possibly say when, in desperation to avoid an arranged marriage, she asks him to marry her?

But yes is only the beginning. Having grown up under the harsh rules of mafia families, can either Caterina or Luciano ever learn to trust? Can they possibly overcome the obstacles those same families throw in their way? They'll have to fight for what they want-together.