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Forbidden Embrace
Hardcover
Mystery & ThrillerRomanceGeneral Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: John S. Bartolotta Sr.
Published: Nov 21 2025
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Marco Valacci was a contractor, a husband, a father, a man defined by stability and routine. Eva D'Angelo was a painter, a wife, a woman trapped in a silent cage built by her controlling husband, Sal. Their lives were miles apart until a single, desperate, and forbidden touch on a rainy afternoon awakened a hunger neither could ignore.
Their secret began in quiet corners a bench in the park, the hushed halls of a museum, and finally, an anonymous motel room becoming a reckless escape from the ordinary. For Marco, the stolen moments made him feel alive for the first time in years, but they came at the cost of his family, leaving his wife, Angie, shattered by suspicion and betrayal. For Eva, it was a lifeline, a chance to be seen as a woman, not an obligation, a dangerous gamble against Sal, a man who built his world on fear and control.
But in a small town, secrets have no shelter. As Angie delivers a brutal ultimatum, forcing Marco to choose the life he built or the love that saved him, Sal's dangerous instincts sharpened by rumor and surveillance close in.
The storm has arrived. When a life hangs in the balance and the truth explodes, Marco and Eva realize that some betrayals can never be undone. They dared to steal a life together, but now they must pay the price for every whispered word, every stolen touch, and every single lie.
They wanted freedom. They got the reckoning.
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