He's supposed to be dead.
I know because I've been investigating the Deluca family for three months, and Luca Deluca's death is the one fact everyone agrees on. Harbour incident. No body. Confirmed.
So when I wake up zip-tied to a radiator in an undisclosed location, I'm not prepared for the man who crouches down and hands me a cup of coffee.
Luca Deluca is very much alive. He's also the only person who can give me the story that will end the Santoro network — the biggest organised crime exposé of the decade.
We make a deal. His evidence. My silence. A temporary arrangement between a man who's been invisible for eight months and a journalist who's constitutionally incapable of not asking questions.
The problem isn't the evidence. The problem is him — the coffee he makes, the books he reads, the way he looks at me like he's been waiting for someone to argue with for eight months.
I know what he is. I know what this world costs.
I just didn't expect to care about him anyway.
His Deadly Secret is a dark Italian mafia romance featuring a morally gray hero who faked his death, a journalist heroine who will not stop talking, forced proximity with blistering slow-burn tension, and a love story built on evidence files and extremely good coffee. Dual POV. Guaranteed HEA. Book Two of The Syndicate Series — reads as a standalone.
I know because I've been investigating the Deluca family for three months, and Luca Deluca's death is the one fact everyone agrees on. Harbour incident. No body. Confirmed.
So when I wake up zip-tied to a radiator in an undisclosed location, I'm not prepared for the man who crouches down and hands me a cup of coffee.
Luca Deluca is very much alive. He's also the only person who can give me the story that will end the Santoro network — the biggest organised crime exposé of the decade.
We make a deal. His evidence. My silence. A temporary arrangement between a man who's been invisible for eight months and a journalist who's constitutionally incapable of not asking questions.
The problem isn't the evidence. The problem is him — the coffee he makes, the books he reads, the way he looks at me like he's been waiting for someone to argue with for eight months.
I know what he is. I know what this world costs.
I just didn't expect to care about him anyway.
His Deadly Secret is a dark Italian mafia romance featuring a morally gray hero who faked his death, a journalist heroine who will not stop talking, forced proximity with blistering slow-burn tension, and a love story built on evidence files and extremely good coffee. Dual POV. Guaranteed HEA. Book Two of The Syndicate Series — reads as a standalone.
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