A novel of fiction, love, and the truth that lives between the lines Callista Heart used to believe in love - until heartbreak taught her it was safer to lose herself in novels than in people. Between the covers of her favorite romances, she finds comfort, hope, and the kind of devotion real life never seemed to give her. Then she meets Professor Sebastian Grey - her brilliant, magnetic literature professor who challenges her mind and stirs feelings she swore she'd buried for good. Every conversation feels like a spark, every smile a betrayal of her vow to hairs her heart What she doesn't know is that the man drawing her back to love is also the one who has been there all along - writing under the pseudonym Tristan Fairchild, crafting the very stories that rebuild her faith in happily-ever-after When truth and fiction collide, she must decide cling to the safe love of the page, or risk everything for the man who's been writing his way into her heart

Valentina Renaldi was eight years old when she watched mafia boss Salvatore de Luca murder her father. Forced into witness protection, she became Sarah Mitchell-a ghost living in America, haunted by blue eyes she hides behind brown contacts and a past she can never escape. Eleven years later, with Salvatore dead, she returns to Italy seeking closure. Instead, she finds Alessandro de Luca. The boy who tormented her in school has become a man trying desperately to atone for his father's sins. He's reforming the family business, making restitution to victims, and carrying guilt that threatens to crush him. When he meets "Sarah Mitchell," he sees salvation-a woman who looks at him like he's just a man, not a monster's son. He doesn't know she's the girl whose life his family destroyed. She doesn't know he's been searching for her for years, desperate to make amends for a crime he witnessed but couldn't stop. As lies unravel and passion ignites, they must answer an impossible question: Is love powerful enough to heal the wounds of the past? Or will the truth destroy their only chance at happiness? A sweeping Italian romance about trauma, identity, and the thin line between enemy and soulmate.