Love is dangerous…
“I’m a monster,Eva. There is no saving a monster. But I love that you want to try.”
My heartconstricts at the expression on his face. He has no hope for himself, so I have to hope for him.
“You’re not a monster,”I argue softly. “You’re a man, Luca. Aman like any other, you’re made of blood and bone.”
As a little boy,Luca Minaldi was told he was a monster.
As an adult, heknows it is true.
He lives inMalta, a fairytale-like place filled with sunshine and sea, beauty andsecrets. And Luca’s darkest of secretsis the best kept of them all.
Eva Talbot isspending the summer in Malta to finish up her doctoral dissertation. When she meets Luca, a mysterious andhandsome shipping tycoon, there is an instant attraction, a disturbing andbeautiful energy that she has never felt before. But she senses the darkness that lives withinhim.
Eva is hired tocare for his mother, who suffers from dementia, but it is Luca who Eva will eventuallyrisk everything to save. Her lifebecomes a swirling chaos of darkness and romance, of secrets and mystery. And the question that emerges will become themost important answer of all.
Can she save Lucafrom the darkness that plagues him without losing herself?
The answer is amatter of life or death.
