Length7h 52m
About this audiobook
Ammonia and old blood. The fish-packing warehouse has been scrubbed a hundred times and the concrete still breathes its history. Luca checks the Beretta for the third time and counts the gaps between the buzzes of a dying fluorescent tube.
His men drag in a Ferrara soldier, young, cuffed, his white shirt blooming crimson from a stomach wound. His own underboss wants the kill done as a message. Luca's father used this warehouse for negotiations before Luca was born, and the same steel table is still here.
The soldier talks. He was called to a pickup by a man wearing a pinky ring with a big red stone.
Luca has been looking for that ring since he was twelve years old, since the night his mother locked him in a closet and he watched through the crack in the door as a man wiped a revolver clean and curled his dead father's fingers around the grip.
He holsters the Beretta and cuts the soldier loose with a message for the Ferrara Don: *Tell him I've buried enough men from both sides.*
When he reaches the parking lot there is a single red rose on his windshield, thorns intact, held in place by the wiper blade. Someone was watching. Someone saw him let the man go.
Dante Ferrara walks into the DeMarco social club proposing a ceasefire, damp curls, a limp, eyes that laugh too easily for a man who lost a brother in this war. He is supposed to be the enemy. Luca is supposed to have killed his brother. Neither of those things is quite the truth, and both of them know somebody inside their own houses is arranging the bodies.
*"And because," I said, "when you kissed me, I kissed you back. And I've been trying to figure out what that means ever since."*
What Luca actually wants is a yard, a school without metal detectors, and a niece who grows up without learning what a piece is. What it costs to get there involves a sister who is lying to him, a quiet woman who has served tea in his family's house for three years, and a table full of capos who will decide what kind of Don he is.
A closed-door MM mafia romance set in Philadelphia, ending in snow, in a restaurant with the chairs stacked and a window facing the mountains.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Prologue
3Chapter 1 - The Shot I’ve Been Waiting For
4Chapter 2 - The Man Who Should Be Dead
5Chapter 3 - The Hand That Seals the Deal
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6Chapter 4 - The Cost of Mercy
7Chapter 5 - The Truth Between Bullets
8Chapter 6 - The Gilded Cage
9Chapter 7 - The Safe Harbor Weakens
10Chapter 8 - The Wreckage of Trust
11Chapter 9 - The Two-Faced Saint
12Chapter 10 - The Grace of Strangers
13Chapter 11 - The Ledger of Shadows
14Chapter 12 - The Weight of One Body
15Chapter 13 - The Wound That Cannot Be Stitched
16Chapter 14 - The Resolve of the Wounded
17Chapter 15 - The Rose and the Thorns
18Chapter 16 - The Light After the Blood
19Chapter 17 - The Unlocked Door
20Chapter 18 - The Cost of Freedom
21Chapter 19 - The Last Embrace of a Sister
22Chapter 20 - The Hinge of Betrayal
23Chapter 21 - The Cage We Cannot Escape
24Chapter 22 - The Truth That Sets No One Free
25Chapter 23 - The Last Sacrifice
26Chapter 24 - The Day We Walk in the Sun
27The End
28About the Author
29Also by Robin Vale
30Acknowledgements
31A Note from the Author
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