ElenaVane23
In Portofino, faith can save your soul. But love might just ruin it.
Céline Moretti believes in goodness, grace, and second chances. At twenty-six, her life in Portofino is intentionally simple: caring for her aging grandfather and dreaming of opening a quiet flower-and-coffee shop where people feel at home. She doesn't want power, she doesn't want wealth, and above all-she wants a good, God-fearing Catholic husband to share a life built on trust.
Edward Educio is none of those things.
As the newly crowned don of Italy's most formidable mafia family, Edward's world is governed by two rules: total control and absolute loyalty. He doesn't believe in God. He believes in power, survival, and eliminating weakness before it destroys him.
Until Céline walks into his café-and into his mind
Intrigued by her warmth and desperate to possess the one thing he cannot intimidate, Edward constructs the ultimate deception. He learns her habits, her secrets, her dreams... and transforms himself into the devout, pious man of her prayers.
But pretending to be a saint is a dangerous game when you're wrapped in the blood of a sinner. As the line between the lie and the truth begins to blur, Edward realizes the most lethal threat to his empire isn't his enemies-it's falling in love with the woman who believes he can be saved.