Jayla Carter Age :24 Role: Former Mafia Queen / Businesswoman Relationship: Tyrell’s former lover Secret: Alive and mother of Tyrell’s daughter Jayla is intelligent, composed, and fiercely protective. She knows the mafia world better than most people realize, but she wants nothing to do with it anymore. Her biggest secret is the little girl she has protected for three years. Jayla still has complicated feelings about Tyrell, but she refuses to let those feelings endanger her daughter.

Tyrell Ferrara Age: 26 Title: Mafia King / Don Role: Head of the most powerful mafia organization Tyrell is feared across the city. Cold. Calculated. Powerful. But everyone who knew him before Jayla supposedly died remembers a different man. Jayla was the one person who could make him smile. After her “death,” that man disappeared. Tyrell doesn’t know Jayla survived. He doesn’t know he has a daughter. And he definitely doesn’t know that the woman he has spent years mourning is about to walk back into his life.

Amara Rose Ferrara Age: 3 Amara is Jayla and Tyrell’s daughter. She has Jayla’s expressions, smile, and personality—but Tyrell’s eyes. She’s curious, clever, and surprisingly observant. Amara has no idea that her father is the Mafia King. She only knows that Mommy has always told her: “Some people need to stay a secret until it’s safe.”

Isabella — Tyrell’s Mother Isabella is the woman behind Jayla’s disappearance. She knows Jayla survived. She also knows about Amara. But she has kept the truth hidden because revealing it could destroy the plans she has spent years building.

Mia smith Jayla’s closest friend and one of the only people who knows she’s alive. Age:24

Kayla Bennett — Fiercely protective of Jayla and suspicious of Isabella.

Naomi Brooks — The calm strategist of the group.

Jace — Tyrell’s right-hand man.

Knox — The muscle of the group and one of Tyrell’s most trusted friends.

Elijah — The strategist who handles the business side of Tyrell’s empire.