VALENTÍNEZ

My brother died behind a locked warehouse door. The man I loved signed the report that blamed him.

Five years later, I'm back in Genoa, and the powerful Valerius family is preparing to sell the company that employed him. The records that could finally clear Matteo's name may disappear with it.

The families who lost everything are being offered a settlement. Everyone wants to move on.

But I refuse to let my brother be remembered for a lie.

Then Valentínez Valerius walks back into my life.

Once, he was the man I trusted more than anyone. Now he's powerful, guarded, and still bound to the family whose version of the truth destroyed mine.

He wants to help me uncover what happened.

The problem? He's also the man who broke my heart.

And every stolen glance, every unfinished conversation, every moment we're alone reminds me how dangerously easy it would be to love him again.

Marco Bernetti knows what it took for me to rebuild my life. He's also fighting for families who need compensation, security, and answers they cannot afford to wait for. Our complicated history only makes the choices ahead more painful.

As old evidence resurfaces, the secrets surrounding Matteo's death threaten the Valerius family's carefully protected world.

To make things right, Valentínez may have to sacrifice everything he's spent his life defending.

And I must decide whether the man who betrayed me can ever become the man I trust again.

He broke my heart once. This time, the truth could break us both.

A standalone, emotionally intense second-chance romance novella set in Genoa, Italy, where dangerous family loyalties, buried secrets, and unresolved love collide.