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Florence, November 1991. The Arno carries silence. In the dead of night, Concetta Esposito - a widow life has not spared - finds an ancient basket abandoned beneath the Ponte Vecchio. Inside, a sleeping newborn. Wrapped under his blanket, three words written in another century's hand: The Son of the Secret. Twenty-seven years later, Nicolas Moretti lives in the shadow of his own existence. He teaches medieval history and wears solitude like armor - knowing that something inside him slowly consumes those who come close. Not violence. Erosion. Like a spring that empties an aquifer with nothing visible above the surface. Cause as little harm as possible is his only rule of survival. Then a forgotten 1764 manuscript - The Devil's Gift - tears the veil. What devours him is not biological. It is a debt. A pact made in 1300 by a desperate young woman, passed down through the bloodline ever since. When Francesca Cozzolino arrives in Florence carrying an unfinished novel and an inexplicable restlessness, the fate of forty-three trapped souls falls into their hands. Every debt can be settled. But the price is exact. And the question remains: What do you do with a weight you never chose? A gothic literary novel set in a Florence layered with secrets, about inherited burdens, the women who kept silent for centuries, and the courage required to break a chain seven hundred years old. For readers of Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Elizabeth Kostova, and Joanne M. Harris.

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