The Cage of Saint Verity

They took her for a fortune. They should have asked what she was reading. Verity Sloane was a convent archivist who liked other people's old papers. Then three masked men locked her in a chapel beneath a dying palazzo and told her she was the last Marchetti heir. Matteo wants the crypt. Lucan wants her to confess. Rafael keeps leaving doors unlocked — and she keeps not leaving. The crypt isn't a vault. It's a witness box. And the testimony inside proves their father murdered her grandmother — the woman Matteo, Lucan and Rafael were sworn as children to protect. On the night the locks open, Verity closes them again. This time she's the one holding the key. A dark captive why-choose novel about the moment a prisoner decides to become the sentence.