Rewriting Fate I’ll Never Love You Again

Isadora has loved Cassian Cross, her brother Damian's best friend and New York's only mafia boss, for as long as she can remember. On her twentieth birthday, Damian arranges a drunken night between them. One reckless night leads to a baby boy, Leo, and a marriage Cassian agrees to after the birth. But the day Leo is born, Cassian vanishes to France for nearly five years, then returns with Alessia, his first love. When Alessia sees Isadora and Leo, she disappears, and Cassian stays close, playing the devoted husband—until Leo's sixth birthday, when the brakes fail on the highway and Cassian locks Isadora inside the burning car, blaming her for Alessia's absence.

Isadora wakes back on her twentieth birthday, Cassian drunk in her bed. This time she runs, and calls Alessia to come collect him. But the whiskey she drank that night still pulls at her, and she stumbles into a strip club called Ruby, landing in the lap of a stranger who knows her name. He warns her not to regret what she is about to choose.