Fallen Kings - June Gillam

In the picturesque hills of Italy, Professor Hillary Broome planned a peaceful family vacation, hoping to reconnect with her estranged mother and protect her newly out daughter, Claire. But beneath the Tuscan sun, a shadow looms.

Father Tommaso, driven by a dark past, leads a secret cabal with one goal: to turn back the clock on women's rights. When Claire vanishes without a trace, Hillary is thrust into a race against time, the pain of festering of old wounds, and the evil ready to ambush a vulnerable family.

As a cunning Cardinal pulls strings and whispers of Mafia involvement surface, Hillary must confront her own demons. The matrix of abandonment and forgiveness pulls Hillary in different directions as she faces her past while trying to survive her own parental nightmare.  Can she trust the mother who abandoned her to help save Claire? Or will old wounds doom them all? 

In a thrilling story of redemption and revenge, "Fallen Kings: Unholy Secrets" exposes the fault lines between tradition and progress, family and freedom.