She came back to bury her mother. She didn't come back for him.
Elena Castellano left New York six years ago with a secret and a one-way ticket. She built a quiet life in Italy — a small apartment, a small job, a son with dark hair and a temper she recognized in her sleep. She told herself she was never coming back.
Then her mother died. And the black car was waiting at the airport.
Luca Marchetti does not get told no. The second son of the Marchetti family, the one who handles what his brother Dante will not, the one who has spent six years pretending he forgot the woman who walked out of his bed at twenty-two without a word. He has built an empire in her absence. He has, by every measurable account, moved on.
He has not moved on.
The boy at her side is five years old. The boy at her side has Luca's eyes.
What begins as a debt — her father's, her family's, the kind of debt the Marchettis do not forgive — becomes something neither of them planned for. A forbidden second chance. A son who is the answer to a question Luca did not know he had asked. And an enemy from her father's past who has been waiting six years for Elena Castellano to come home.
Luca Marchetti made one mistake in his life. He let her go.
He will not make it twice.
SINS OF THE FATHER is the second book in The Marchetti Empire, a series of dark mafia romances featuring forbidden love, secret children, and the kind of men who burn the world down to keep what is theirs. Each book can be read as a standalone, but is best enjoyed in order.
Reader notes: Closed-door scenes. Slow-burn intensity. Themes include grief, family violence, and protective parenting. Strong HEA.
Genre: Romance
Elena Castellano left New York six years ago with a secret and a one-way ticket. She built a quiet life in Italy — a small apartment, a small job, a son with dark hair and a temper she recognized in her sleep. She told herself she was never coming back.
Then her mother died. And the black car was waiting at the airport.
Luca Marchetti does not get told no. The second son of the Marchetti family, the one who handles what his brother Dante will not, the one who has spent six years pretending he forgot the woman who walked out of his bed at twenty-two without a word. He has built an empire in her absence. He has, by every measurable account, moved on.
He has not moved on.
The boy at her side is five years old. The boy at her side has Luca's eyes.
What begins as a debt — her father's, her family's, the kind of debt the Marchettis do not forgive — becomes something neither of them planned for. A forbidden second chance. A son who is the answer to a question Luca did not know he had asked. And an enemy from her father's past who has been waiting six years for Elena Castellano to come home.
Luca Marchetti made one mistake in his life. He let her go.
He will not make it twice.
SINS OF THE FATHER is the second book in The Marchetti Empire, a series of dark mafia romances featuring forbidden love, secret children, and the kind of men who burn the world down to keep what is theirs. Each book can be read as a standalone, but is best enjoyed in order.
Reader notes: Closed-door scenes. Slow-burn intensity. Themes include grief, family violence, and protective parenting. Strong HEA.
Genre: Romance
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