The Taste of Ruin
Bianca Moretti steps off a tram in Milan after thirty-one sleepless hours, arriving to the news that Nonna Clara's trattoria , the heart of her family's culinary legacy , has burned to the ground. Her brother Marco stands accused of insurance fraud, a journalist from Italia Cucina is sniffing around, and Davide Ferraro, the man who once nearly destroyed the Moretti name, is circling the wreckage like a vulture. With her grandmother's recipes and her own stubborn pride as her only weapons, Bianca resolves to rebuild , one salvaged meal at a time. Into this chaos walks Lorenzo Cassano, the elusive heir to a rival food empire, who offers funding she desperately needs and answers she isn't sure she wants. As the financial police close in on Marco and the Cassano boardroom proves a battlefield of its own, Bianca and Lorenzo are forced together by debt, by danger, and by a chemistry neither can extinguish. But when long-buried family secrets surface and Lorenzo's own brother Niccolò becomes entangled in the conspiracy, Bianca must decide whether some ruins are worth saving , and whether love built on ashes can possibly stand.