Sweet before Sin

She arrived in Tuscany for a year.

She did not expect it to change the architecture of her life.

Morrigan Kane is young, intelligent, and far more observant than most people realise. A sabbatical on an olive farm in Italy is meant to be simple — space to think, to write, to become someone steadier than the girl she has been. The land is ancient, disciplined, rooted in rhythm and patience.

Gabriel Bartolini is part of that land. Older. Self-contained. Intentional. A man who understands cultivation — of trees, of time, of silence — and who has no intention of disturbing the careful order of his world.

What begins as proximity becomes tension. What grows in quiet becomes undeniable.

Set against the slow pulse of harvest season and the intimacy of shared work, Sweet Before Sin is a story of awakening — not reckless, not rushed, but deliberate. It explores power without spectacle, desire without apology, and the subtle shift that happens when two people recognise themselves in each other.

This is the beginning.

Before the sin. Before the unraveling. Before the choice that changes everything.

The first book in a dark, emotionally intelligent romance series about desire, discipline, and the kind of love that asks you to become more than you were.