Lady of the House

Can a woman lead? As Don Valerio D'Averrano's only daughter, Alessandra has been trained to inherit what her family built over generations. But when the moment comes, Alessandra faces a hard choice: she must marry. She needs someone strong enough to stand at her side, but not so ambitious that he would seize what should be hers. Then Lorenzo Veretti appears—the man her father chose for her. Lorenzo is not a son of one of Bellacosta's Five Great Families. He has no business empire, no ports, no seat in government. In fact, few people really know where the Veretti family's power comes from. At first, Alessandra thinks the marriage is her father's way of protecting her. Until she starts to wonder: was Lorenzo Veretti truly sent to be her husband—or to bring about the fall of the D'Averrano family?