Some families are built on love. The Fiorellis were built on fire.

April 28, 1945. A dictator is executed beside his mistress on a cobbled road in northern Italy.

December 24, 1950. A farmhouse in West Virginia burns to the ground. Three children vanish without a trace.

May 13, 1955. A man arrives in Queens with a newspaper photograph and a name on his lips, but the city has no intention of giving him answers.

These are not three separate stories.

They are one carefully kept secret.

Set against the dying embers of Mussolini's empire and the frozen silences of a West Virginia town. Mussolini Mistress is a noir thriller spanning multi decades, two continents, and a family whose every tragedy was someone's deliberate choice.

The truth was always there. Hidden in plain sight, behind the one face nobody thought to question.