Heir to Silence

Eva Lane has spent eleven years hiding behind a name that isn't hers.
By day, she runs a quiet bar on the edge of nowhere. By night, she tries not to remember the blood-soaked empire she was born into-one erased in a single night. Everyone believes the Ricciardi family is dead. Eva intends to keep it that way.

Because she isn't just a survivor.
She is the heir to silence-carrying a legacy no one is meant to remember.

Luca Moretti has spent a lifetime forging himself into the weapon his family demands-the heir to a kingdom built on loyalty, power, and fear. When he stumbles into Eva's bar one violent night, bleeding and barely standing, she saves him without knowing who he is-or how dangerous her kindness will become.

She's hiding something.
He's addicted to the lie of control.
And neither of them can walk away.

When Eva is forced into a remote safe house under Luca's orders, their hostility twists into something far more dangerous-charged glances, almost-kisses, and a pull neither dares name. She's a locked box he can't open. He's a threat she can't outrun.

But Eva's past is a fuse waiting to ignite, and Luca is getting too close to the truth she's sworn to bury.
He doesn't know who she really is.
He doesn't know what her name used to mean.
And he doesn't know how much of his carefully built world will burn when her secrets come undone.

Enemies become lovers.
Lovers become risks.
And the truth becomes a loaded gun.

He is the heir to a world she can't afford to trust.
She is the last secret that could shatter his.
And when the past finally catches up... someone won't walk away.

TW: Violence, trauma, and dark mafia elements throughout.