Inganno-A Beautiful Lie

INGANNO (noun, Italian): deception, illusion, a carefully constructed lie.

Jade Koch has spent years perfecting the art of pretending.

Pretending her family is still wealthy.
Pretending the lights in their penthouse always work.
Pretending the debt hanging over their heads isn't slowly suffocating them.

By day, she's a polished Blackwood University student surrounded by the children of CEOs, politicians and old money dynasties.

By night, she works for the man who owns her family's future.

Enzo Genovese saved the Kochs when they lost everything. At least that's what everyone believes.

Then Jade meets Elijah Robins, Blackwood's golden boy football captain with an easy smile, too much charm and secrets that rival her own.

As old betrayals resurface and buried truths claw their way into the light, Jade discovers the most dangerous lie isn't the one she's been telling the world.

It's the one she's been told her entire life.

Some debts are paid in money.

Others are paid in blood.