The Don Who Died Twice

Three years ago, Matteo Vescari died.

Josephine Calloway was there to photograph the body.

The funeral was closed-casket. The Vescari empire moved on. And Josie tried to bury the memories of the man she had lost along with him.

Then she receives a photograph that should not exist.

Matteo Vescari is alive.

And the body Josie photographed three years ago may never have been his.

Seven words are written on the back of the photograph:

YOU REMEMBER THE WRONG DEATH.

Matteo has spent three years surviving captivity, rebuilding himself in the shadows while his family believed him dead. Now he's back—and someone inside the Vescari family has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the truth buried.

Josie is the one person capable of uncovering it.

She's also the one person Matteo cannot afford to trust.

As they dig deeper into the death that started everything, old secrets surface. A murdered friend. A hidden financial trail. A missing piece of evidence. A family member whose grief may have been an act. And memories Josie can no longer trust.

The closer she gets to the truth, the more dangerous Matteo becomes.

Not because he wants to hurt her.

Because he may be the only man standing between her and the people who already tried to erase the truth once.

But Matteo has secrets of his own.

And when Josie discovers that the man she thought she had lost—and the man standing in front of her now—are connected by a betrayal neither of them fully understands, she has to decide what scares her more:

Trusting the Don who died twice...

Or discovering why he was never supposed to survive the first time.

In a world where loyalty is bought, memories can be manipulated, and love can become the most dangerous weakness of all, the truth doesn't simply have a price.

It has a body count.

Some deaths are meant to stay buried.

Some men were never meant to stay dead.