"I told you, Leo. I’m at a party. Stop faking an accident just to hear my voice." With those cold words, Elena hits a button on her phone. She thinks she’s locking her husband out of her car. She doesn’t realize she’s locking his mother inside a burning wreck. Leo begged for mercy. He knelt in the mud while the woman he loved laughed, sipping champagne with a man who wasn't her husband. She threw a "worthless" silver necklace at his feet and told him to rot. Now, his mother has twenty-four hours to live. The hospital is demanding cash he doesn't have. And the wife who swore to love him just signed the divorce papers. But as the silver locket clicks open in the hospital hallway, Leo realizes the lie wasn't his—it was theirs. The blood is still on his hands. The smell of smoke is still in his hair. But the man who was once a house-husband is gone. "You wanted a divorce, Elena. But can you afford the price of my return?" The clock is ticking. The "loser" is dead. Leonardo Salvanche has arrived. Read "Blood and Champagne" to see what happens when the man on his knees finally stands up.