Isabella Rossi came to the Reyes estate in Palermo with a suitcase, a debt she didn't choose, and one rule — stay invisible. Alejandro Reyes is Sicily's most feared man, a man who built his empire on silence and blood and has never once apologised for either, a man who does not notice staff. Until Isabella. What grows between them was never supposed to exist — she is everything his world destroys and he is everything her instincts warn her against — but the estate's walls hold their secret the way old stone holds heat, long after the source of it is gone. Then Luca Ferretti enters the picture, cold and calculated and obsessive, and suddenly Isabella is not just the woman Alejandro cannot stop watching. She is the thing his enemy has decided to use against him. She will leave three times. Each time it will cost more than the last. Each time she will come back — not because she has nowhere else to go, but because leaving and staying are two different kinds of choice and she is a woman who has finally learned the difference. *Beneath His Cold Hands* is a slow burn Sicilian mafia romance about power and softness, danger and desire, and what it means to choose someone who lives in a world that was never built for choosing.