I had never seen her up close before. Just a fleeting shadow slipping through the neighborhood, always watchful, always on guard. She carried a wild beauty with her—slender and graceful—her golden fur patterned with spots like she belonged in some distant rainforest. She never approached, only watched from a distance. Then one morning, while taking […]

Enzo Mallorca was a legend of the deep. A world-record Italian diver with lungs of steel and unmatched courage. But even for a man who had spent his life beneath the waves, one dive off the coast of Syracuse would change him forever. That day, Enzo was in the water while his daughter Rossana stayed […]