Leave Me and Raise Her Baby

From the back cover

Cesare Ferrante, the most feared Don of the Ferrante family, has always hated children—until his wife Giulia's stepsister, Bianca Moretti, moves in next door with her six-month-old baby. Suddenly Cesare feeds the baby, sings lullabies and carries the child everywhere, while Giulia becomes invisible to him. When someone forces her car off the road, she calls him fifty-five times; he answers none, posting a photo of the baby instead.

At the family banquet, Giulia raises a toast and asks for a divorce. Her parents and the famiglia are outraged, insisting Cesare is a devoted husband and that helping a single mother is simple decency. Cesare twists her words, hinting she has a lover, and questions whether she staged the crash to lose the child she now carries.

As Bianca arrives and Cesare takes her baby into his arms, Giulia stands alone against them all, determined to cut ties and raise her child herself.