Behind My Innocent Smile

She was sixteen when she came home to a house filled with silence.

Her parents were dead.
The guards who had sworn to protect them were dead.
And the person responsible was nowhere to be found.

Ten years later, Carina Valentina De Luca lives behind a smile.

To everyone else, she's simply Xienna-a sweet waitress living an ordinary life.

But ordinary is only a disguise.

For eight years, Xienna has secretly searched for the person who destroyed her family. Every clue leads nowhere. Every answer seems buried deeper than the last.

Until Matteo Xavier Emerson, a determined prosecutor, takes an interest in the decade-old case.

He wants to uncover the truth.

She wants to find the killer.

Neither of them expects their paths to cross so closely-or for their investigation to uncover secrets powerful enough to put both their lives at risk.

He doesn't know that the woman helping him is the last surviving heiress of the family he's investigating.

She doesn't know if she can trust the man getting closer to her secrets.

But as the truth begins to surface, one thing becomes clear:

The killer didn't disappear.

They've been waiting.