The Gallows of Dawn: Your Either Born To Power or Crushed By It

On the cliffs of Positano, you're either born to power or crushed by it.¿With nothing but a kiss from his mother and a need to prove his father wrong, twenty-two-year-old Jack Sullivan left Detroit for Positano, his mother's hometown on Italy's Amalfi Coast. In Positano, a town where family loyalty runs deep and outsiders rarely belong, he meets Maria Morocco, a schoolteacher who appears to have everything: beauty, status, and a future secured by her engagement to Luca Enzoro, heir to one of the region's most powerful families.To Positano, Maria Morocco is the perfect daughter, the perfect match, the perfect future. But beneath it all is a woman quietly suffocating under expectations she never chose. Jack doesn't see the woman Positano built. He sees the one she's been hiding. For the first time, someone makes Maria feel like more than a last name. What starts as stolen conversations deepens into something urgent and inevitable. The kind of passion that makes the rest of Positano disappear.Maria's father, Detective Tulio Morocco, has spent a lifetime clawing his way up from nothing to become a powerful and corrupt force in Positano, and his daughter's engagement to Luca and the Enzoro family dynasty will cement his family's place forever. When Jack and Maria's love can no longer be hidden, Tulio makes a choice that changes all their lives, and the consequences spiral out of his control.What follows is a trial that threatens to destroy them all. Maria will do whatever it takes to save the man she loves, Jack braces for a justice that was never meant to be fair, and Tulio must choose between his legacy and his daughter. As dawn approaches, even destiny has a surprise.