A lethal love story in magical Venice, where Dan Hooper, an innocent watercolorist, falls in love with a beauty whose twin is in the spell of an evil ogre. The stuff of fairy tales, but this is a savage descent into the world of the criminally rich, where law has no meaning, deception is the only truth, and dead men tell no tales. Dan’s love strains against a tide of ill-gotten wealth while an implacable adversary tracks his every move, and, just when safety seems secure, disaster strikes. Heart-pounding action rockets from a Venetian palace to a vineyard chateau in France, before returning to the waters of the Venetian lagoon, where Dan must summon all his nerve to wield the assassin’s dagger with two blades.