The Final Claim

GINEVRA

They buried my husband in an empty box.

I chose the wood. I lined it with my own hands. I walked behind it up the aisle where I married him, with the whole of Naples staring at my stomach.

Now I'm carrying his child under the roof of the man who put him in the sea.

He calls me cara. He peels my oranges. He's bought my baby a cradle.

He says he'll be its father in every way that matters.

So I smile. I say thank you. I keep my secrets sewn into my hems.

Because there's one thing he doesn't know.

PIETRO

The sea was supposed to keep me. It gave me back.

Now I'm a ghost in my own city. My name is cut into a wall. Another man sits in my chair and wears my father's ring.

And my wife sleeps on the other side of his wall.

I've kept every promise I ever made. I'm going to keep this one too.

I'm coming back for my name, my city, and the only woman who ever made me want to live in the open.

Whoever put me in the sea is about to learn what a dead man can take.

This is the third book in The Darkest Truth Series. Reading order:

The Deadliest Debt.

The Cruelest War.

The Final Claim.

372 pages. Kindle edition.