She wakes in a Florence hospital with a concussion, no identification, and no memory of who she is. The only familiar thing in her shattered world is Dorian Ashford—the mysterious, dangerously compelling stranger who found her unconscious in an alley and refuses to abandon her. As fragments of her identity slowly return, they reveal something far more frightening than simple memory loss: someone powerful is hunting her, her past may be connected to organized crime, and disappearing may have been the only way she could survive. Dorian offers protection behind the walls of his secluded castle, but he carries secrets of his own as the formidable leader of a shadowy organization accustomed to operating on both sides of the law. Attraction quickly becomes trust, and trust becomes something far more dangerous as Mara realizes that the man protecting her may know more about her forgotten past than he admits. With a mobster closing in and violent memories beginning to surface, she must uncover who she was before she can decide who she wants to become. And when the truth finally draws close, the greatest threat may not be the enemies hunting her—but the secrets standing between her and the man she has begun to love. The heroine wakes with total amnesia in Florence after Dorian finds her injured in an alley. Her identity is deliberately obscured as the threat from Vittorio grows, even leading to a fabricated identity as Nora Marielle Blake. The manuscript itself ends on a major unresolved revelation: Mara discovers Dorian already possessed evidence connected to her past and confronts him about what he knows.
She wakes in a Florence hospital with a concussion, no identification, and no memory of who she is. The only familiar thing in her shattered world is Dorian Ashford—the mysterious, dangerously compelling stranger who found her unconscious in an alley and refuses to abandon her. As fragments of he...