Away Home

~Cairo Sweet x Pip Fitz-Amobi~

In 1945, sixteen-year-old Pippa Fitz-Amobi is sent away on the Treni della Felicità, a relief effort to relocate war-ravaged children to safer homes. Torn from the remnants of her past life, she arrives in north Italy, where she is placed under the guardianship of a powerful and enigmatic family whose wealth and influence stretch far beyond what meets the eye. The Sweet family, revered yet feared, holds control over military, government, and underground dealings across Europe. In their world of secrets and shadows, Pip is thrust into a life of luxury that feels more like a gilded cage. Her survival instincts, sharpened by years of war, tell her to remain cautious-but it is within this family that she meets the one person who will change the course of her life forever: the heir to the Sweet empire, a figure as dangerous as they are captivating.

As Pip navigates the opulence and peril of her new home, she finds herself entangled in a web of deception, power struggles, and moral dilemmas that threaten to consume her. The war may be over, but in this world, battles are fought with whispers instead of bullets, and loyalty is a currency as valuable as gold. Struggling to reconcile her past with the uncertain future ahead, Pip must decide whether to resist the pull of this family's influence or embrace the darkness that comes with it. But as tensions rise and old enemies resurface, she realizes that the true danger isn't just the family she now belongs to-it's the part of herself that begins to crave their world.