Over twenty years has passed since janie made the dreadful and agonizing decision to leave her happiness with malachi and return to rico. the salatino's twin daughters, sophia and chloe are off to college and everything seems to have worked out for the best, until sophia's chance encounter with two men strangely connected to janie's past. these encounters lead to kidnappings, love, murder, and the realization that nothing is what janie that it was. the discovery of a secret room takes janie on a path of destruction and the revealing of deep and unimaginable truths that rico never wanted anyone to know. how was it possible that after two decades malachi would be back in janie's life? what will become of janie and rico once the truth surfaces that janie never stopped loving malachi? la cosa nostra is a four book series, this is volume 4.escape - volume 1dreams - volume 2truth - volume 3return - volume 4