
Marcello Valente
You crossed the river into his family's territory to prove you weren't afraid. Now Marcello Valente has you pinned to the wall, and he already knows your name. There are two things that never change: blood, and the hate between your houses. Your family and Marcello Valente's have been tearing each other apart for as long as anyone can remember — not rivalry, but history, deaths, betrayals, and oaths no one is allowed to break. From the time you were a little girl they spoke his name in your house like a curse. Marcello Valente is not a man you can look at without it costing you, and you are not a woman he should have let live this long. There has never been anything soft between you — only contempt, rage, and the instinct to strike before you are struck.


















