The Five Graves He Built for Love

For seven years, Gemma Vaccaro believed she shared a hidden union with Dominic Falcone, the man who sheltered her from the men who once humiliated her. Five times she conceived, and five times she lost the child, blaming her own failing body while Dominic grieved beside her and summoned the Family's physician to watch over her.

Then, outside a private room at the social club, she overhears Dominic and his oldest confidant, Marco Rizzo. The children were never meant to live. Dominic had them killed to give specimens to Adriana Colombo, the woman he truly loves, and the pact binding Gemma to him was a forgery his line never sanctioned. In three days he sails across the sea to marry Adriana.

Gemma hides what she has heard, ends her sixth pregnancy, and books passage across the water. Then she finds Dominic's second phone, unlocked by Adriana's birthday, and the messages inside turn her blood cold.