LB Camille finds herself in California looking for any trace of the Baldovinos, lured into a blue-eyed den of vipers, so far behind enemy lines it's incriminating. She is forced to walk back the steps that have counteracted her revenge, toward facing her mistakes in Chicago. She disappears in the night after a crucial meeting and ends up in Italy, but the entanglements of a vendetta have all but eliminated the chances of breaking even, and black eyes have established the depths of a very twisted situation. Have the trials of men's appetites not sentenced them all?
Angelo Moretti keeps himself at a distance while forcing LB to keep her word to protect everything she seeks to gain. He was responsible for saving her, he had even let her go just to get her back, and only when she is ready to come home, will he reunite her with the pieces of herself that she has left in his safekeeping.
Dezi Nunez, a man convinced of the roles they play-master and prot g -and the unforgettable lesson it teaches all of them.
Marco Corcelli, a man undaunted by the darkness that lives in all men, born with a propensity to reach into every dark corner he crosses, refusing out of sheer will to let go of whatever he manages to snag. And LB has gotten too used to walking into the shadows, always clinging to her like smoke in the daylight and an opportunity in the shade, and the morally opaque has become the darkest shadow with a grip. Marco is no longer the unreadable stone he was upon first impression, but he has become the mortal weight of consequence holding her down.