By day the crowded maze of one of Italy's most mysterious cities, Venice, seems unscathed and unsupervised by those who inhabit it. The world seems at peace, but at the edge of the city the Ladro Family Mansion, rises up like a protector, or does it? Then the darkness builds its stage across the land to reveal a much more sinister performance. Someone has the most skilled criminals in Italy running for their lives and with their newly found baggage-two Interpol agents they are sworn to protect-it seems impossible that Valeria Ladro and her cousin, Stasia, would be able to keep up the pace. Even worse, they are running from a shadow hidden in Valeria's past. A shadow that won't stop until she falls.