Her Sugar MaskUpdated at Sep 14, 2026, 23:50
They said the Vitali family died in a single afternoon. They were wrong about one of them.
Giulia Vitali was heir to Sicily's most feared fortune — until her uncle slaughtered her family at her nephew's baptism and put the gun in her hand on the evening news. She sank in concrete and swam out with a silver cake knife and the key her father pressed into her pocket as he died.
Now she is Rosa Amato: a cleaner in a white-stone village, smiling at everyone, trusting no one, one ruined hand and a stolen name between her and the grave.
Then Matteo Ferrante rents the house on the mountain. He is a consultant with an EU file and a telephone voice that changes the moment he thinks she cannot hear it. He is hunting the same stolen millions her father buried. He knows who she is. He has not given her to the men who want her dead.
Yet.
Her uncle wants her silent or sorry. A senator wants the village bought and buried. The only child left alive — her baby nephew — wears the gown three generations wore to their baptisms, and calls her name on camera every night.
She came home to bury them. She will do it with sugar on the outside and a blade underneath.