THE SCARLET VESTIGE: PROLOGUEIn the wake of the Moretti collapse, a vacuum formed in the underworld—not just of power, but of purpose. When the boy with the obsidian eyes turned the jade-green rooms into archives and the gold into dust, he didn't just end a dynasty; he broke the tradition of the "Silent Wife."

But across the Tyrrhenian Sea, in the sun-bleached hills of Calabria, the old ways were not dying. They were hardening.

The Valenti family did not build cages of silk and jasmine. They ...