Chapter 1 - THE FOUR WORDS
Eight months after a violent ambush supposedly killed his fiancée, Isabella Conti, and their three-day-old daughter, Lucia, New York mafia boss Lorenzo DeLuca finally allows a memorial to be held at his mansion.
Three hundred powerful guests gather beneath Isabella’s portrait while Lorenzo stands silently beside hundreds of white carnations. He has spent eight months hunting the people responsible for the attack, but every investigation has ended in dead witnesses, missing evidence, and unanswered questions.
Near the reception tables works Sophia Rossi, a quiet housemaid accompanied by her three-year-old daughter, Emma.
Emma has spent months watching Lorenzo grieve.
During the memorial, the toddler suddenly releases her mother’s hand, walks across the marble room, and tugs Lorenzo’s trousers.
When he bends down, Emma whispers four impossible words.
“Your daughter is alive.”
Lorenzo goes completely pale.
But the most disturbing reaction does not belong to him.
Across the room, Sophia freezes in terror.
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Because she knows exactly what Emma is talking about.
And she knows someone has been willing to kill to keep that secret buried.
