The Old Apron Hid the Queen of the Family

For thirty years Antonietta has run the front business, kept the compound standing, and put every man in the Family before herself. When she finally asks Salvatore, the man she is bound to, about the promise he made her thirty years ago, he calls her childish. Her son and his wife tell her to be good and stay. Then she sees his phone: travel papers for five, her husband, her son and his wife, her grandson, and her sister Vittoria. They leave in five days, and no document bears her name.

She packs their bags, drives them to the private airstrip, and watches them go. Then she signs the compound over to a buyer and buys herself one set of traveling papers, one way. The trip around the world she waited thirty years for, she finally gives it to herself.

But the Family does not let go so easily. Salvatore, Marco, and Vittoria all have their own ideas about the place Antonietta was given, and about what she owes them.