Length8h 1m
About this audiobook
He is the head of one family. Luca is the son of the other, and the two names have not been spoken civilly in the same room since before either of them was born.
October bleeds through the window: cigarette smoke and diesel and the faint yeasty ghost of the day's last bread from the bakery below. He presses the flat of his palm against the ledger and counts the numbers again. They do not change. Four thousand gone, and not to a rival. To his own man's stupidity.
The office above the bakery was his father's before him. Same scarred oak desk. Same crucifix above the door. Same smell of old paper and older grudges. He painted the walls himself, a cream so pale it is nearly white, to make the room feel less like a tomb. It did not work. The paint has yellowed in patches where the radiator hisses, and the floorboards groan in the same places his father's feet wore them smooth.
He caught himself tracing that path once, desk to window to door, and stopped when he understood what he was doing. The man has been dead four years and he still measures the room in his footsteps.
The door opens without a knock. Carmine Ferrara fills the frame the way he fills every room, too much presence and too little grace, gold tooth catching the lamplight.
*Still counting? Numbers don't change no matter how long you stare.*
What follows: the price of a sit-down, a consigliere's invitation, neutral ground that is nothing of the sort, a dragon's tail, a dead ally, a snake's smile, a saint's doubt, and lies told inside a confessional.
*You're in love with a Moretti, and you're hunting a traitor, and you're trying to stop a war that's been brewing since before you were born.*
*What do you want?*
He knows exactly what he wants now, which is the easy part. The hard part is convincing a man raised to expect betrayal that being wanted is not the opening move of one.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length8 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Price of a Sit-Down
3Chapter 2 - The Consigliere’s Invitation
4Chapter 3 - The Neutral Ground
5Chapter 4 - The Dragon’s Tail
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6Chapter 5 - A Dead Ally
7Chapter 6 - The Snake’s Smile
8Chapter 7 - Saint Enzo’s Doubt
9Chapter 8 - Confessional Lies
10Chapter 9 - The Feast’s First Blood
11Chapter 10 - Two Brothers, One Secret
12Chapter 11 - The Weight of Pinky
13Chapter 12 - The Trap Closes
14Chapter 13 - The Feast of the Unspoken
15Chapter 14 - The Matriarch’s Gambit
16Chapter 15 - The Snake Strikes
17Chapter 16 - The Sacrifice Offered
18Chapter 17 - The Pier at Midnight
19Chapter 18 - The Confession Heard
20Chapter 19 - The Last Secret
21Chapter 20 - The Final Chosen
22Chapter 21 - The Syndicate’s Reckoning
23Chapter 22 - The Price of Freedom
24Chapter 23 - The Town That Won’t Forget
25Chapter 24 - The Don’s Confession
26Epilogue
27The End
28About the Author
29Also by Robin Vale
30Acknowledgements
31A Note from the Author
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