"When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a journey around the world. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast of Long Island to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up residence in the gatehouse of Stanhope Hall, John finds himself living only a quarter of a mile from his ex-wife Susan. But Susan isn't the only person from John's past who has resurfaced. Though Frank Bellarosa, infamous Mafia don and Susan's ex-lover, is long dead, his son, Anthony, is alive and intent on two missions: drawing John back into the violent world of the Bellarosa family, and exacting revenge on his father's murderer, Susan Sutter. At the same time, John and Susan's mutual attraction reawakens and old passions begin to reignite, and John finds himself pulled deeper into a familiar web of seduction and betrayal."--p. 2-3 of jacket.