the duke gave a penniless young woman the worthless castle no one wanted—one year later, he returned and could not recognize what she had built

The next morning, Aria woke with blood under her fingernails. She scrubbed until her skin turned raw, but the memory did not come off. The…

The black Maybach waited illegally at the south entrance with its engine running. Derek opened the rear door himself, shielding Carly with his body as…

Albert did not move fast enough, so Beatrice grabbed the front of his blood-soaked shirt and hauled him upright herself. Pain tore across his face….

Enzo exploded through the phone in a storm of Sicilian profanity. Tessa let him yell. She was too tired to be impressed by volume. Her…

Cecilia’s scream tore through the bedroom as Alistair’s supposedly dead hand tightened around her wrist and stopped the syringe inches from his vein. The empty…

Part 1 The room went silent the moment Maribel Rivera walked into the Copley Royale ballroom wearing red silk. For three years, the men of…