Glass Saints

Some things shatter in public. The worst damage happens afterward.

Alvise Varagnolo knows how to keep a life in order. Shirts are pressed, every detail accounted for, and every feeling put away where nobody can see it. But after a catastrophic incident leaves a beloved religious statue shattered and his hands badly injured, the careful structure of his world begins to fracture. The accident has a history, and the people who control that history are determined to keep it buried.

Amedeo Zorzetto has spent years carrying his own burdens: family expectations, a complicated loyalty to the powerful, and an attraction to Alvise that he has tried hard not to name. Their connection is already dangerous. Now the shattered statue, a fatal workplace accident, and a web of lies have turned private feeling into public risk.

In a place where faith and reputation are woven tightly together, truth can cost more than silence. Blackmail threatens to expose what powerful men would rather conceal, while grief and guilt make it difficult to know whom to trust. As the pressure mounts, Alvise and Amedeo must confront not only the secrets that bind their families, but the ways they have learned to betray themselves.

Glass Saints is a dark, atmospheric MM romance about forbidden desire, family power, grief, faith, and the cost of telling the truth. With an evocative Italian setting, morally complicated characters, and a relationship tested by danger and betrayal, this is a story about what remains when the beautiful things break.