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In 1900s Sicily, beauty and blood walk hand in hand.
Vera Collins never expected her father's dream of better wine to end in a backroad execution and her own captivity at the hands of the ruthless Spadaro family. Branded as a trespasser in a war she doesn't understand, she's beaten, starved, and forced to work the kitchens of their sulfur mines.
But fate shifts in the smoke and chaos of a sudden explosion, throwing Vera into the path of Enzo Favara, a miner with dangerous friends and a past as fractured as her own. Their desperate flight across the hills delivers her into new territory - the land of Don Torrisi.
And into the path of Cesare.
Cold-eyed, calculating, and utterly loyal to his Don, Cesare sees Vera as a problem... until her resilience begins to unsettle him. In a land where trust can kill as easily as a bullet, they'll both have to decide if their guarded hearts are worth the risk.