Teresa

Teresa Maria Giovanni turns 21 in Amalfi, the town where she was born and raised, and the man who walked out of her life four years ago comes home on that very birthday. Nico Sebastian Rossi has spent those years deployed with the military.

He is her older brother's best friend, and the two families once did everything together: church every Sunday, barbecues afterward, soccer games on Friday nights in season.

Things are not the same now. Seven years ago, both their mothers were murdered. Teresa's father, Adriel Giovanni, an Italian mafia boss, has just learned that the family is receiving death threats, the same kind that preceded those killings.

Adriel turns to Nico, who has been like a second father to the family, and names him Teresa's bodyguard.

He must take her away from Amalfi and keep her safe for as long as the danger lasts, with no set end date. Alone with her, he doubts he can hold back feelings he has long treated as forbidden, since she is his best friend's little sister.