Peril (without dust jacket)

The Story

Sara Labriola is a married woman haunted by the shattering secrets of her past-and terrified of the future. Tired of living in fear-and knowing that if she stays in her marriage she'll be killed-Sara decides to do the only thing she can: she makes herself disappear.One afternoon, without telling a soul, she packs a single suitcase and leaves her life in Long Island behind. In New York City, she will reinvent herself. She will change her identity, and maybe even get the happy ending she's always dreamed of. But that dream is about to become a nightmare when her father-in-law decides to make her pay for abandoning his son.Leo Labriola runs his modest but lucrative criminal organization like he does his family-with unspeakable brutality and zero tolerance for disobedience. He's determined to teach Sara a lesson and he'll stop at nothing to do it. Now six differently desperate and dangerous men-each with the power to destroy her-are on Sara's trail. But none of them suspect that the woman they are seeking has a dangerous secret of her own. For Sara is leading all of them down a path of private demons, past sins, and the deadliest peril.