#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline presents Loyalty an emotional action-packed epic of
love and justice set during the rise of the Mafia in Sicily. Loyalty can save a soul—or
destroy one. Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He
dreams of owning his own grove but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition.
Determined to secure a better future Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the
baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante Franco makes a decision
that will change his life—and even the history of Sicily—forever. Gaetano Catalano is an
idealistic young lawyer whose devotion to justice is tantamount to a calling. He’s a member of
the Beati Paoli a real-life secret society of aristocrats who investigate crime in Palermo a
city riddled with graft. Gaetano sets out to find the boy and punish the kidnapper but his
mission leads him to a darker place than he had ever imagined. Meanwhile Mafalda Pancari is a
new mother rejoicing at the birth of her daughter Lucia when disaster strikes. And Alfredo
D’Antonio is a reclusive goatherd under constant threat of being discovered as a Jew. How the
lives of these unforgettable characters collide makes Loyalty an epic tale of good versus evil
as the story twists and turns to its monumental showdown. Readers will be transported to the
dramatic and ruggedly beautiful island of Sicily the jewel of the Mediterranean where lush
lemon groves and mouth-watering cuisine contrast with a turbulent history of colonization and
corruption. Scottoline brings her decades of thriller writing to historical fiction creating
in Loyalty a singular novel that no reader will be able to put down.
