Title: The Fall of Gold (Barone & Nash)
Author: Rebecca Thompson
Imprint: Still Waters Run Deep Publishing
Release Date: August 5, 2026
Series: Barone & Nash series
ISBN: 979-8995673019
eBook ISBN: 979-8995673057
Genre: Romance, Crime, Drama, Suspense
Available Formats: Paperback or eBook
Language: English
Paperback: 284 pages
Item Weight: 13.4 ounces
Size: 6 x 0.64 x 9 inches
Explore Authors Mini Review:
“A mafia leader falls headfirst for a headstrong baker, who becomes the object of his desire. She will be his in this suspenseful romance where loyalty and power meet obsession.” ★★★★★ – Explore Authors Magazine
Explore Authors Editorial Review:
Miguel de Cervantes famously wrote, “Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.” But for Vincenzo Barone, the ruthless, golden-eyed Don of Cedarshire’s Mafia Empire, love isn’t a war; affection is either given willingly or taken by force. Decades of brutality have taught him that you either take what is yours or get left behind.
Enter Sloane Nash: a fiercely independent, silver-eyed baker with an ailing mother, a deadbeat father, and a spine of steel, who literally pops into his life via a pop-out cake.
In Rebecca Thompson’s The Fall of Gold, readers are thrown onto the battlefield of love to answer a central question: Will this ruthless predator surrender his control for a greater prize, or will his power allow his wily prey to slip through his fingers? (Full Review Here)
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About the Book:
In the shadowed heart of Cedarshire’s mafia empire, where loyalty is forged in blood and power gleams like gold, Vincenzo Barone rules with ruthless command and piercing golden eyes that conceal a hidden void. That emptiness cracks when Sloane Nash, a resilient baker whose silver gaze sparkles with unyielding defiance, bursts unexpectedly into his world and ignites an all-consuming obsession:
She must be his.
Sloane, her silver eyes alight with hard-earned strength and enchantment, fights for her independence while caring for her ailing mother in a life shadowed by deceit. But a desperate debt ensnares her in Vincenzo’s opulent web, transforming coercion into a blazing romance that challenges her principles against his dark realm. As passion surges, shattering secrets emerge, testing the fragile bond between predator and prey.
Betrayed and fierce, Sloane unleashes her inner storm, compelling Vincenzo to confront true redemption. Can golden ambition and silver spirit unite in unbreakable harmony, or will lies doom them to ruin?
The Fall of Gold kicks off the Barone & Nash series – a dark romance brimming with scorching heat, heart-pounding suspense, and soul-stirring renewal.