THE MOUNTAINS WERE SILENT...

He was handsome, shrewd, lustful—a scoundrel who would do anything for money.

She was beautiful, innocent, lonely—and she possessed a fortune...

Alina would not be the first woman Royal Ludovici had pretended to love—but she might be the first with whom his practiced deceit would fail...For, unscrupulous as he was, Royal now found himself confronted by forces greater than his own insatiable greed.

And they were teaching Royal, for the first time, that in the end a man can betray only himself...