Virgin Territory

How many secrets are these Sicilians hiding?

This can’t be right. When you marry a man for his money, you expect to be left with a pile of shiny gold pieces when he dies. Not some hillside in the middle of nowhere covered with vines. How’s a young widow supposed to pay off her gambling debts with that? So when Eugenius asks Claudia to chaperone his granddaughter home to Sicily she jumps at the chance to make money. It should be easy. Sabina, she is told, has recently completed thirty years’ service as a Vestal Virgin. Or has she?

Claudia quickly suspects she’s escorting an impostor. Then a woman’s brutalized body is discovered. And the lies just get thicker and thicker…