Bride of the Devil

When her father’s shipping company collapses under a dangerous debt, graphic designer Serena Russo is offered a single resolution: marriage to Luca Vitale. The terms are precise, the documents honest, and the man across the table nothing like the performance she expected. What begins as a carefully negotiated arrangement on the Upper East Side becomes, season by season, something neither of them arranged for. In a house with north-facing windows and a century-old garden, they learn the difference between a contract and a life.