Loyalty

#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty,an emotionalaction-packed epic of love and justiceset during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. Loyalty can save a soulΓÇöor destroy one. Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grovebut the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better futureFranco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named DanteFranco makes a decision that will change his lifeΓÇöand even the history of SicilyΓÇöforever. Gaetano Catalano is an idealistic young lawyer whose devotion to justice is tantamount to a calling. HeΓÇÖs a member of the Beati Paolia real-life secret society of aristocrats who investigate crime in Palermoa city riddled with graft. Gaetano sets out to find the boy and punish the kidnapperbut his mission leads him to a darker place than he had ever imagined. MeanwhileMafalda Pancari is a new mother rejoicing at the birth of her daughterLuciawhen disaster strikes. And Alfredo DΓÇÖAntonio is a reclusive goatherd under constant threat of being discovered as a Jew. How the lives of these unforgettable characters collide makes Loyalty an epic tale of good versus evilas the story twists and turns to its monumental showdown. Readers will be transported to the dramatic and ruggedly beautiful island of Sicilythe jewel of the Mediterraneanwhere lush lemon groves and mouth-watering cuisine contrast with a turbulent history of colonization and corruption. Scottoline brings her decades of thriller writing to historical fictioncreating in Loyalty a singular novel that no reader will be able to put down.