She came to Italy for a deal. He arranged the deal to get to her.
What Claire Bailey thought was a career-saving business trip to the Calabrian coast turns out to be something far more deliberate.
Arik Medici has lived for centuries in the shadows of the region his family was cursed to protect. Charming, controlled, and dangerously patient, he has been patiently waiting for Claire's arrival.
He let her live her life. He waited. And now she's finally here.
As bodies surface and the truth closes in, Claire begins to understand that nothing has been a coincidence. Not the canceled flights, not the closed roads, and certainly not the extended hotel stay at Vigneto Riserva del Regale.
Neither was falling in love with him.
But Arik is not a man. And love, for something like him, looks a lot like possession.