When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left
America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world,
eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the
Gold Coast, the stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once
held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the
imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence in
the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a
mile from Susan, who has also returned to Long Island. But Susan isn't the
only person from John's past who has reemerged. Though Frank Bellarosa,
infamous Mafia don and Susan's ex-lover, is long dead, his son, Anthony, is
alive and well, and intent on two missions: drawing John back into the violent
world of the Bellarosa family, and exacting revenge on his father's murderer -
Susan Sutter.
When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left
America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world,
eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the
Gold Coast, the stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once
held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the
imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence in
the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a
mile from Susan, who has also returned to Long Island. But Susan isn't the
only person from John's past who has reemerged. Though Frank Bellarosa,
infamous Mafia don and Susan's ex-lover, is long dead, his son, Anthony, is
alive and well, and intent on two missions: drawing John back into the violent
world of the Bellarosa family, and exacting revenge on his father's murderer -
Susan Sutter.
