The Amalfi Alliance (Book One)

Secret agent Ines di Santa has enough on her plate without love getting in the way. After years scrutinizing Italy’s criminal underbelly, Ines goes deep undercover to ensnare numero uno crime boss, Carlo Cosimo. Accepted inside the family’s clandestine perimeters, Ines traverses its rich splendor aboard the Lady Elena, a luxury super-yacht cruising the magnificent azure waters of the Amalfi Coast and Capri Island. But it is Carlo’s right-hand man – the murderous Rino Amerola, with his rat cunning, and penchant for fast fixes of the sex and gun kind – who makes it very clear it won’t all be plain sailing. With Ines poised to blow Carlo’s multi-euro heists out of the water, while coming to terms with her own murky past, she inexplicably finds herself standing on the precipice of breaking the cardinal undercover code: never fall in love, with any player, in the game.

Over in New York, Tilly McKenzie is juggling an equally hectic life: film premieres, couture fittings, late night phone calls from Katie Holmes and tight deadlines. Tilly is proud to be sitting pretty at the top of the New York fashion tree – and all before 30. Quite an achievement, she thinks. But a fateful telephone call smashes the perfect life to tie Tilly and Ines di Santa forever. With the unearthing of an incomprehensible secret from an improbable past, Tilly is thrown right into the treacherous cauldron of Italy’s gangland world. And her life will never be the same again.