The Heir of the House of Ferrara

Camille Ferrara walked away from the family at seventeen and never looked back. She plays cello in a chamber quartet, lives in two rooms, and believes she is invisible. She is not. For four years, Aurelio Ferrara has sat in the back row of every concert she has ever given and left before the applause. When the old don dies and a Senate investigation demands a legitimate heir, the will names them both — and the family moves her into the mansion to keep her alive, three doors down from a man who knows her schedule to the minute. Camille thinks he's controlling her. She is partly right. What she doesn't know is that there is a contract out on her life, and Aurelio has spent eight months buying up every part of it — the contract holder, the building next to hers, the messages she never saw. Then she finds the folder in his study, and everything he has done for love, he has done without asking. He knew she'd be angry. He chose angry over dead.