The Blood In Vine

She came to Sardinia to keep a stranger's heart beating. She never expected the vineyard to know her name.Ashley Sweet accepts a private nursing assignment at the Vassallo estate because distance feels like freedom. Instead, she finds missing heart medication, sabotaged roads, and Rocco Grinaldi, the grim, controlling heir who treats every question as a threat.Rocco does not trust outsiders, especially one who unsettles his discipline as easily as Ashley does. Yet suspicion turns to hunger, and the rules they negotiate in darkness become the only honest thing between them.Then buried records begin pointing toward Ashley's own past.Someone inside the Vassallo empire wants its secrets kept dead, even if Vitoria dies with them. To save her patient and uncover the identity stolen from her, Ashley must decide how much of herself she can risk. Rocco must learn that protecting the woman he loves is not the same as controlling her.In this vineyard, blood runs deeper than wine, and love may be the most dangerous inheritance of all.