PROVENANCE

Lucia Serra came to Chicago to conserve a seventeenth-century painting for the Bellandi Foundation. She didn’t expect to find a flawless forgery, a hidden original, and her dead father’s mark buried in the frame.

Adrian Bellandi knows the moment Lucia sees too much, she becomes a target. To keep her alive, and to stop his father from burying the truth, he places her under his personal protection inside the Bellandi estate. Lucia refuses to become a captive without terms. Before the family’s consigliere, she forces a two-week accord: she will examine both paintings, protect the integrity of her findings, and help trace the switch. In return, Adrian will protect her brother, grant her access to the records she needs, and swear that no one will ever put her signature on a lie.

What begins as a cold standoff in a climate-controlled studio becomes something far more dangerous. Adrian is ruthless, watchful, and impossible to ignore. Lucia is the first woman who meets his power with a steady hand and refuses to flinch.

But as the gala approaches and betrayal spreads through the Bellandi operation, Lucia must decide who to trust with the truth. And Adrian will have to choose whether he wants control, or a woman free enough to walk away from him.

PROVENANCE is Book 1 in The Bellandis, an interconnected standalone bilionaire mafia romance series, and features a complete HEA.