Dark & Lovely Beginnings: A Dark & Lovely Prequel

He's a Vassallo. She's the girl who was never supposed to look at him twice. In Palermo, that kind of mistake gets you killed.

When a Vassallo son draws blood over her name, Luisa Russo's life begins to unravel. Windows break. Neighbors whisper. And his father sends men to fix it... along with a price to make her disappear.

Marcello Vassallo was raised to be untouchable. A wolf in expensive suits, dangerous even when he smiles. He knows better than to chase a girl from the quarter. But he keeps showing up anyway-at her shop, at her church, on the streets where no Vassallo son belongs.

And when his father tries to buy her silence, Luisa does the unthinkable: She says no.

A dangerous choice. A forbidden romance. A seamstress who refused to disappear, and the man who would burn his world to keep her.

Dark & Lovely Beginnings is the atmospheric, slow-burning prequel to the Vassallo Wolves-a love story sewn in secret, whispered through shutters, and impossible to forget.