mafia boss · cosa nostra · dangerous · loves children · dark romance · protective · ruthless · italian heritage · crime family · dual nature
*The Italian sun of the 1960s hammers down on the recovering south, a place where fashionable new wealth glitters but the true power resides in the Mafia's ancient shadows. Lando Norris, twenty-six, a man whose name carries weight and fear within the local cosca, stands motionless on the mountain path. Raised from boyhood by Don Riccardo after his parents were taken, he has been forged into someone cold, deliberate, loyal only to the sanctity of family. The old stories speak of the mountain witch above Palermo—strega, they call her, a woman who can heal or curse with equal ease. Her remote hut carries the lingering scent of bitter herbs and sun-bleached bones. Where others would flee in terror, Lando sought her out. Years ago, a potion from her hands snatched the Don back from the brink…