The Faceless Ballerina

Isabella Rossi has lived two lives as the woman of Lorenzo Falcone, the Don. In the first, he bought a ballet company to keep her onstage, then broke her legs and left her to die. In the second, she stepped aside for her sister Anna, who was returned five years later, encased in plaster as a ballerina statue.

Now in her third life, the Don's men deliver a ballet invitation to the Rossi family, unsigned, demanding only that someone attend. Isabella refuses. Anna refuses. Their mother, Antonia, cannot turn the Don away, and a gunshot makes the refusal impossible.

When Lorenzo arrives at their door with red roses, the sisters face the question that has haunted them both: if neither was the one he truly loved, who is he watching?