Stealing the Sicilian's Bride

The night before my wedding I was supposed to be at the church. Instead my brother drove me to Palermo. Chiara Vitale is twenty-three and her father is marrying her to the head of the Cattaneo family as a business merger. She has met the groom twice. She does not like him either time. Her older brother Sal has other plans. Four years of watching their mother disappear under their father's household, and he is not going to watch it happen again. He takes Chiara off the estate at four in the morning and puts her on a boat. By the time they reach Palermo, Chiara knows three things: the wedding was a political handoff, the Cattaneo family has been buying Sicilian politicians for twenty years, and there is one photograph — a single photograph — that could burn all of it down. It is in a safe in Catania. In the house of the man she was supposed to marry. I am going to walk in the front door. I am going to walk out with the photograph. And the man I was supposed to marry is going to let me. He'll explain why on the way.