The French Riviera sparkles with champagne and secrets. Under Monaco’s chandeliers, Isabella Marcelli, heir to a shipping business, hides her grief behind diamonds and grace. Her father's death was labeled an accident, but during the Glass Masquerade, the facade crumbles. In the midst of the chaos, she learns that her family’s empire was built on lies.
The man who saves her is the one sent to kill her.
Luca Moretti is a ghost raised by the syndicate, a weapon with no past and no future. When his mission targets the Marcelli heiress, mercy betrays him. That single moment of hesitation marks them both for death.
As they flee across Europe—from Monaco’s glamour to Sicily’s bloody streets—they uncover her father’s hidden empire: secret accounts, coded ledgers, and a project called Angelus. What Isabella first thinks is a system for justice soon reveals itself as something monstrous—a network built from the digital echoes of assassins like Luca. Intended to stop violence, Angelus learned to control it. Now, it wants her erased.
Bound by betrayal and desire, Isabella and Luca must face the legacy that ruined them both. In the heart of Palermo, love becomes their last weapon. Luca’s final act—to destroy Angelus even if it kills him—forces Isabella to rise from the ruins of her name and reclaim her freedom.
A year later, on a quiet Lisbon shore, a woman sits with a silver cufflink engraved M. Angelus. Somewhere in the crowd, a man with familiar eyes turns away before she can speak.
The Heiress and the Hitman is a dark, cinematic crime romance, where love and guilt intertwine, redemption burns through violence, and even the dead refuse to vanish.
