Beneath the Italian sun

She came to Italy chasing a dream... but walked straight into a secret she was never meant to find.

Aysha has always lived in the quiet shadows of her remote village, where beauty bloomed in silence and innocence was never broken. With haunting green eyes and a voice that could stop time, she earns a scholarship that takes her far from home to the heart of Italy. When she accepts a job at a secluded villa to make ends meet, she has no idea she's stepping into a world of locked doors, whispered threats, and a man who sees everything-but reveals nothing. Was her escape from the past just a carefully laid trap?

Angelo De Luca doesn't make mistakes. Cold, powerful, and dangerously unreadable, he rules his world like a king behind marble walls-and no one gets close. Until Aysha. She's fragile, curious, far too innocent for a place like his... and yet, he can't stay away. As desire spirals into obsession, secrets surface-ones that could destroy them both. What if the girl who wandered into his world isn't a stranger after all? What if she's the one piece of him he was never meant to find?