About This Book
Sofiya has spent her life hidden — deemed a liability by a father who sees her disability as weakness, she's been kept out of sight until a political marriage finally makes her useful. Shipped off to a man who wants nothing to do with her, she arrives hoping for a fresh start and finds instead a wall of cold indifference from a mafia don who has locked his heart away behind years of grief and mistrust. What unfolds is a slow collision between two people who have both been told, in different ways, that they are unworthy of love — and neither is ready to believe otherwise.
Rossi builds tension through restraint. The push-and-pull between Sofiya and Matteo earns its heat precisely because the story takes time to establish what each of them stands to lose. The dual perspective gives readers full access to both sides of the emotional standoff, and Rossi uses that structure to layer in dramatic irony — you understand what each character can't yet see in the other. The prose is direct and propulsive, keeping pages turning while the emotional stakes quietly deepen beneath the surface conflict.