Five-year old Teri was not Carol’s child but her sister Cynara’s although Carol’s husband Vincenzo had been his father – but she had always looked on him as her own child. She was determined to do the best she could for him – and if, now, it meant going to Italy and begging the help of Vincenzo’s family, then it must be done. But Carol had visualised a kindly grandfather – not Teri’s uncle, the formidable Baróne Rudolph Falcone, whose scarred face matched his unrelenting attitude to her. And she had not bargained for this man’s solution to her problem…