The Coat, the Child, and the Christmas King
Maya is freezing, broke, and hates Christmas. After losing her job and her apartment, the last thing she needs is more bad luck. But on the coldest night of the year, she finds a young girl, Isabella, shivering and abandoned in a storm. Without thinking, Maya gives the girl her only coat, a precious memory of her late mother.
That simple act of kindness changes everything. The girl’s father is Leo Visconti, a man the newspapers call a “shipping magnate,” but the streets know as the most powerful Mafia Boss in the city. When Leo finds his missing daughter safe and warm because of a stranger’s sacrifice, he is determined to find this woman. He tracks Maya down, not to hurt her, but to offer her a job and a safe place to stay as a thank you.
Maya, with nowhere else to go, accepts. She is thrown into a world of glamour, danger, and a little girl who sees her as a holiday angel. As Maya’s cynical heart begins to thaw in the warmth of this strange new family, Leo’s dangerous past comes knocking. To protect the little girl she’s grown to love, and the man she’s falling for, Maya will have to discover a strength she never knew she had.