When I exited the court after the verdict, I looked at my watch and groaned. People didn’t believe that the twenty-year-old daughter of these two sociopaths didn’t know something was wrong, and even if I genuinely had no idea, I couldn’t help but feel guilty. I didn’t miss the glares directed my way by the families of the victims every time I took my seat in the back of the room. I let out a sigh of relief when my father was sentenced to life without parole and my mother to forty yearsI was there to make sure this whole nightmare would finally end and they would end their lives behind bars. Maybe part of me hoped they would have the decency to apologize to me and Jude for destroying our lives and making us pariahs because the stigma we were carrying was a heavy cross to bear.

I was going there-I was not sure why I was going there.

I was not going to court to support them. My face, half hidden behind my messy red hair as I walked out of the court during the trial, even made the first page of our regional paper and I had wanted to disappear on that day. These people… My parents used their small investment firm to embezzle the retirement funds of more than fifteen thousand people in ten years and they had also murdered thirty-two elderly people in an attempt to cover their tracks. We were Cassandra and Jude West, the children of the Rivertown Murderers. The press had been nothing but a curse for me and my little brother, Jude. That any press is good press, but that is a load of crap! They say everybody wants to be famous, be on the covers of the newspapers. Who better than the daughter of monsters to love a beast? The closer she gets, the harder it is to remain the ghost he’d become. The fiery redhead starts to bring back to life parts of him he wanted dead. She is everything he doesn’t want and everything he needs. Luca Montanari turned from an adulated powerful mafia underboss to a recluse, clinically alcoholic beast with a death wish in the blink of an eye.Īll he wants is to be left alone, to soak in his pain and guilt-in his own version of purgatory-until Cassie West enters his life. The mysterious owner of the manor whose obvious pain resonates with hers. Social pariahs can’t be choosy and she finds a job as a live-in housekeeper at Hartfield Manor-a cursed job that no one wants.īut as the days pass, she is intrigued and determined to figure out who is the man in the shadows. But first she needs to get her ten-year-old brother out of social care.

Being the daughter of the Riverside monsters is a heavy cross to bear, one that twenty-one-year-old Cassie West can’t escape.

Broken prince series