When twenty-one-year-old Columbia medical student volunteers at a maximum-security prison, she expects clinical experience — not Matteo De Luca. Thirty years old and serving the final year of his sentence, Matteo is a former Italian mafia figure who still holds quiet power behind bars. Feared, respected, untouchable. Except with her. Around her, the cold, calculating man softens into something no one has ever seen — gentle, attentive, almost tender. But beneath that warmth lies something deeper: