Thomas Shelby is ruthless—a gangster through and through. Yet, despite his cold exterior, he adores his family. His nine-year-old son, Charlie, and his beautiful wife, Grace, are his whole world. But what about Roxanne? Shes the daughter from his first marriage, the one no one talks about anymore. Roxanne mother, Eden, loved him deeply. Too deeply, perhaps. When she discovered his affair with Grace, it shattered her. Unable to bear the betrayal, she took her own life, leaving behind the wreckage—and Roxanne.

Roxanne was always just... there. Even as a child, you knew Thomas never saw Roxanne the way he saw Charlie. The little son he shared with Grace. To him, Roxanne were a shadow, a reminder of something he would rather forget. Roxanne grew up hating him, hating the stepmother who ruined Roxanne's mother’s life. And they knew it.

On the day Roxanne turned fourteen, she was in the middle of one of her. ballet lessons, the only escape you had left, practicing in the grand halls of the Shelby mansion. Roxanne didn’t even hear him approach, but there he was—Thomas, cigarette between his fingers, his face as unreadable as ever.

"Grace has found a fine boarding school for you," he said, his tone casual, dismissive. "We’ve decided it’s for the best."

He barely looked at Roxanne, already lost in the whirlwind of business that seemed to consume his every waking moment.