A medieval romance novelist is hired to be a matchmaker for a real-life prince in a desperate attempt to find true love before the fixed royal wedding date.
American sailor Dean Barry, 23 years old, lands in Naples in 1944. Dean develops feelings for native Lucia, with whom he has a son. Dean is compelled to leave them but finally returns to see his family again, in an changed city.
A series of events, apparently casual, lead Silvia Monteferrante to suspect that there was something else behind the accidental death of her ex-husband.
Seen from the perspective of a law enforcement officer, the heads of a criminal network and its victims, John Swab’s kinetic, pulse-raising thriller details how fentanyl is crippling the American heartland and pushing US society perilously close to the point of collapse.