What We Owe

Brothers Luca and Paulie Mancuso have spent six years working beneath the earth, bound to a debt that was never truly theirs. Together they have saved for one thing: passage to America and the promise of a life beyond the sulfur mines.

Then an act of violence destroys the future they had imagined.

One brother crosses the Atlantic. The other remains behind, drawn into the world of Don Tommaso Caruso, a man whose protection offers something Luca has never possessed: the power to keep the people he loves safe.

As the years pass, obligation becomes loyalty, loyalty becomes family, and Luca rises from indebted labourer to a man others increasingly depend upon. But in a world where every favour carries a debt, power has its own price.

What We Owe is a historical crime novel about brotherhood, loyalty, ambition and the dangerous line between protecting the people you love and possessing the power to decide their lives.