Cousins Valerie and Toni McVay have been best friends forever and when you’re a McVay you need all the friends you can get._x000D_When Toni’s twelfth birthday is marred by a terrible crime the wicked path of the girls looks set. A decade later the McVay family aren't the unstoppable force they once were in the Glaswegian criminal underworld but Frankie McVay the up-and-coming prince is determined to restore the family to its former glory by whatever means necessary. And the whole family are expected to help._x000D_His sister Toni shares her brother’s blood lust but Valerie dreams of a quieter life and when she meets and falls in love with Seb as straight as Frankie is bent as kind as Frankie is wicked Val sees her way out._x000D_Can she escape a family that is determined to own the city and to keep Valerie firmly in their violent grasp? And will Toni ever let her best friend Val turn her back on the bloody secret they have shared for all these years…