EROE

I was born the bastard son of a martyred saint and the Devil—or so the stories go.

My father is an Italian crime lord, feared and untouchable. My mother died trying to escape him on my seventh birthday. I’ve been bleeding for it ever since, punishing myself for surviving her, for being his. Every year, I flirt with death the way other boys my age flirt with girls.

Until I meet her.

Luciana.

She’s softness in a world that only ever cut me. She doesn’t know who I am—what I come from. And for the first time in my life, I want something that isn’t pain. I want to be worthy. I want to stay.

But I was never meant for the light.

And the sins of the father don’t just follow you.

They claim you.

The sins of the father are not easily escaped. And those who are born into darkness must carry that cross forever....