{"product_id":"valentino","title":"Valentino","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eShe spent ten years waiting for him to look. He spent ten years pretending he didn't.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHe had spent fifteen years moving across Europe without leaving a trace.\u003cbr\u003eHe left one tonight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eValentino walked into a back room of a palazzo in Milan looking for a twenty-five-year-old American who had been gone too long from his side, and he found her on a red couch, drugged, half-dressed, three men with phones standing over her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHe shot one.\u003cbr\u003eHe killed the other with his hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAmanda had come to Milan for the campaign of her life. A first-class flight. A suite at Casa Aurelia. Two years of work cashing in. She had known the man at the next table since she was fifteen — her best friend's cousin, the one who had never once looked at her, the one she had given up loving when she was nineteen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eShe had no plan for him being there.\u003cbr\u003eShe had no plan for what he became when he saw her on that couch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eValentino has spent thirty-eight years not letting himself want anything that could be taken from him.\u003cbr\u003eHe has carried his father's rosary in his pocket every day for twenty-four years.\u003cbr\u003eHe has buried men for a living.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHe has never asked a woman to stay.\u003cbr\u003eHe is going to ask her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAnd every man who put a hand on her in that palazzo is about to learn what the Sartori family's diplomat becomes when he stops being polite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e*Valentino is a full-length mafia romance novel with no cheating and a guaranteed HEA. It is the seventh book in the Sartori Syndicate series. Each book features a different couple and can be read as a standalone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sherry Blake","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67591867826480,"sku":"9605175000988","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/valentino","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}