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Book One · June to December

Savior

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  1. Part One
  2. Ch 1Torrin

    The Dark Lord

    His lab, Manhattan

    A chemist finishes a device and finds a model on a magazine cover.

    Spoiler Torrin plans to end the Moretti family from the inside. Liam suggests using Aria King to get close to Carmine. Torrin refuses: “Aria King is off limits.”

  3. Ch 2Aria

    Wings Won’t Help Me Now

    A fitting, then Carmine’s car

    Aria gets ready for the biggest show of her career. Carmine wants one more favour.

    Spoiler Carmine offers her a way out if she proves her loyalty one last time.

  4. Ch 3Torrin

    Stay Sharp

    Carmine’s club, the Hamptons

    The first meeting.

    Spoiler Aria dances. They trade lines at Carmine’s table. “Until next time, Miss King.”

  5. Ch 4Aria

    Use Me

    Carmine’s club

    Carmine names his price. Torrin leaves a note.

    Spoiler Carmine orders her to find out who Torrin really is. Torrin lights her cigarette and she leaves with him.

  6. Ch 5Aria

    Blurred Lines

    The pool house

    A pool house, a bong and too much honesty.

    Spoiler Torrin has laced the weed with truth serum. She doses him back. First kiss.

  7. Ch 6Torrin

    Moonshine

    The pool house, the pool, his bed

    They talk until three in the morning.

    Spoiler He tells her about his father and the mistress. She tells him about foster care and Carmine. Olly interrupts. She sleeps in his bed and nothing else happens.

  8. Ch 7Aria

    Slow Kiss

    Grand Central, then a rooftop in Hoboken

    She sneaks out. He is waiting at Grand Central.

    Spoiler Rooftop sushi. She tells him about the big house on a quiet street. The skylight breaks under them.

  9. Ch 8Aria

    Earth Shattering

    A photo studio

    A shoot goes wrong.

    Spoiler The photographer attacks her and says Carmine promised her to him. Torrin arrives with a gun.

  10. Ch 9Torrin

    Open Casket Funeral

    The studio

    Torrin goes back inside.

    Spoiler He shoots Douglas. Aria empties the rest of the gun into the body. Their first kill together.

  11. Ch 10Torrin

    Nothing Lasts Forever

    Torrin’s place

    The first fight.

    Spoiler He stops her because she is hurt. She takes it as rejection and walks out. “You can’t escape me.” “Watch me.”

  12. Ch 11Aria

    Longing

    Backstage, then a bar in the Meatpacking District

    The show. He doesn’t come.

    Spoiler Isla Taylor adopts her and introduces Jax. They plan to make Torrin jealous.

  13. Ch 12Torrin

    The Flood

    Torrin’s place

    Liam and Declan have opinions.

    Spoiler Torrin watches the show footage and the tabloid clips of Aria with Jax.

  14. Ch 13Aria

    One Night Only

    The bar, then her apartment

    A kiss for the cameras.

    Spoiler She kisses Jax on the dance floor, turns him down, and finds Torrin waiting in the dark in her apartment.

  15. Ch 14Aria

    Us

    Aria’s apartment

    Part One ends on her apartment floor.

    Spoiler They fight about Jax and sleep together for the first time. “You belong to me.”

  16. Part Two
  17. Ch 15Aria

    Dangerous Games

    Carmine’s townhouse, Murray Hill

    A wrong-number call from Joey’s Pizza.

    Spoiler Carmine proposes with a ring and a house. She says no. He orders her to get Torrin to take her to Belfast, and claims Torrin killed his mother.

  18. Ch 16Torrin

    Protector

    Outside Aria’s building, then the penthouse

    Torrin finds one of Carmine’s men parked outside her building.

    Spoiler The driver says Aria is Carmine’s fiancée. Torrin has him killed and confronts her. She admits the proposal and they split.

  19. Ch 17Aria

    Damned

    A fitting room

    Dressing for the MET Gala.

    Spoiler Isla borrows a pink diamond so that Torrin will see the photographs.

  20. Ch 18Torrin

    Harsh Reality

    A roof, then the MET Gala

    The MET Gala.

    Spoiler He sees the ring in the headlines and goes to the Gala. They reconcile on the red carpet. Then the bombs go off.

  21. Ch 19Aria

    Aftermath

    The hospital

    Seventy-two hours later.

    Spoiler Torrin is in a coma. Aria tells the hospital she is his wife. Carmine supplies an experimental drug, for a price he will name later.

  22. Ch 20Torrin

    Believe

    The hospital

    A hospital room.

    Spoiler He has lost everything since June, including meeting her. The staff call her Mrs. Walker and he believes them.

  23. Ch 21Aria

    Fractured

    The hospital

    Carmine collects.

    Spoiler Carmine tells her about his birth mother and a killer named Walker. He has bugged the room, and he orders her to keep up the marriage.

  24. Ch 22Torrin

    Tiocfaidh ár lá

    Outside, with Liam and Declan

    Why the Walkers came to New York.

    Spoiler Declan lays out the plan. Torrin decides to take Aria to Belfast and find out what she is hiding.

  25. Ch 23Aria

    Together

    The penthouse

    Home from the hospital.

    Spoiler She buys two wedding bands engraved “til death”.

  26. Ch 24Torrin

    Falling

    The penthouse, then the Hamptons

    A quiet week.

    Spoiler She tells him everything she knows about Carmine’s detective. She shows him her grandmother’s copy of Romeo and Juliet. He asks her to come to Ireland.

  27. Ch 25Aria

    Boom

    Walker Hall, Belfast

    Belfast.

    Spoiler She learns he is head of the Walker family. She tells him she loves him. His car explodes in the drive.

  28. Ch 26Torrin

    Mother Dearest

    Walker Hall

    Meeting his mother.

    Spoiler Enya refuses the marriage and pushes Bria. Torrin tells his mother he loves Aria.

  29. Ch 27Aria

    Madly, Deeply

    Walker Hall

    He asks her one question.

    Spoiler She confesses. Carmine sent her, and they were never married.

  30. Ch 28Torrin

    Betrayal

    Walker Hall

    Torrin tells Liam and Declan.

    Spoiler Declan wants her gone. He and Torrin come to blows.

  31. Ch 29Aria

    Tear Me Up

    A dock, then a rooftop

    Declan tells her what to ask.

    Spoiler Torrin confesses that he killed his father and his father’s mistress. She stays.

  32. Ch 30Torrin

    Possession

    A club in New York

    Back in New York for a meeting with Carmine.

    Spoiler Aria refuses Carmine for good. Torrin holds a gun to his head and lets him live. The war starts.

  33. Ch 31Torrin

    An Indecent Proposal

    A construction yard, then Aria’s apartment

    December. Snow.

    Spoiler Torrin orders the Moretti tower brought down. Aria tells him she loves him and he cannot say it back. She runs.

  34. Ch 32Aria

    The Black and the Deep

    Carmine’s penthouse

    She goes to the wrong door.

    Spoiler Carmine admits he never knew who her father was. She tells him it is over. Everything goes black.

  35. Part Three
  36. Ch 33Carmine

    End of an Era

    A private jet

    Carmine’s side of it.

    Spoiler He has Aria tied to a seat and calls Torrin: come within half an hour or the plane blows.

  37. Ch 34Torrin

    A Likely Gamble

    The airstrip

    Torrin goes alone.

    Spoiler He fights his way onto the jet and flies it clear of the bomb. The Moretti tower falls.

  38. Ch 35Aria

    Savior

    The penthouse

    The title chapter.

    Spoiler He says it at last. “Mo ghrá, Aria.”

  39. Ch 36Torrin

    Interrupted

    The terrace

    Sunrise over Central Park.

    Spoiler He starts to propose. Declan interrupts: Carmine is coming.

  40. Ch 37Aria

    Against All Hope

    The freeway, then a parking garage

    A car chase.

    Spoiler He proposes in a parking garage with no ring. She says yes.

  41. Ch 38Torrin

    Confrontation

    Pier 12

    Pier 12.

    Spoiler Carmine shoots Liam dead. Malachy arrives with men. Carmine shoots Torrin in the chest.

  42. Ch 39Aria

    Truth Takes Time

    The hospital

    The hospital again.

    Spoiler Rosie pulls a gun: Aria leaves or Torrin dies. Aria writes him a letter and goes.

  43. Ch 40Torrin

    Alone

    The hospital

    Another hospital room.

    Spoiler Declan hands him the letter.

  44. EpilogueTorrin

    Epilogue

    His new office

    Some time later.

    Spoiler He runs the city and tells himself he is done with her.

Book Two · One year later

Exile

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  1. PrologueCormac

    Belfast, 1984

    Belfast

    Another Walker, another city, a long time ago.

    Spoiler Cormac Walker proposes to Alessandra, an Italian from the enemy family. Enya O’Flaherty, pregnant with Torrin, blackmails him into marrying her.

  2. Part One
  3. Ch 1Torrin

    Worthless

    Manhattan

    One year later.

    Spoiler He dreams of the day he followed Aria to the plane. He writes her a letter he will not send.

  4. Ch 2Torrin

    Here’s Your Sign

    His office

    An unwelcome visitor.

    Spoiler Bria Ryan says she is pregnant by him. She has found the ring he bought for Aria, and he throws it at her.

  5. Ch 3Aria

    The “Quiet” Life

    Isla’s yacht, Italy

    A year at sea.

    Spoiler Aria has spent the year on tour and on the yacht with Isla. She tells Isla what Rosie did.

  6. Ch 4Aria

    Father Dearest

    The yacht

    A Walker comes aboard.

    Spoiler Malachy arrives: her father sent him. She tells him the truth about why she left.

  7. Ch 5Aria

    My Day Has Come

    The yacht

    News from home.

    Spoiler Torrin is engaged and Bria is pregnant. Aria’s birth name is Cara Fisher, her mother was murdered, and her father is Senator Levi Abbot.

  8. Ch 6Torrin

    Brave Face

    An engagement party

    A party he did not ask for.

    Spoiler The DNA test confirms Aria is Levi’s daughter. Declan tells Torrin about Rosie’s gun. Torrin admits he betrayed Aria himself.

  9. Ch 7Aria

    Carmine’s Truth

    JFK, a cab, Isla’s townhouse

    A familiar cab driver.

    Spoiler The driver is Carmine. He tells her Torrin demanded her as the price of working with him, and Malachy confirms it.

  10. Ch 8Torrin

    Clarity

    Walker headquarters, then Isla’s townhouse

    Shipments are going missing.

    Spoiler He puts his fist through a table over Aria arriving with Malachy. Isla agrees to help him if he ends it with Bria.

  11. Ch 9Aria

    An Abbot

    Levi’s penthouse, Columbus Circle

    Aria meets her father.

    Spoiler She kisses Malachy out of spite. She tells Levi how Cara Fisher became Aria King.

  12. Ch 10Torrin

    Show Me The Way Out

    The Museum of Natural History

    The first time they see each other.

    Spoiler He overhears his mother plotting with Augustus Ryan. At the benefit: “You used me.” “Aye. But I regret nothing.”

  13. Ch 11Aria

    Cross the Line

    The benefit

    An old acquaintance.

    Spoiler Senator Nichol Evans, now Rosie’s husband, lets slip that a plan against Torrin has started. Then he attacks her.

  14. Ch 12Torrin

    Razor Sharp

    A side room

    The fight they have been saving up.

    Spoiler He punches Evans. They fight about Liam and the lie, and they kiss.

  15. Ch 13Aria

    Thy Will Be Done

    The museum, then upstate

    Rosie.

    Spoiler Rosie taunts her. Aria strangles her. Levi helps bury the body.

  16. Ch 14Torrin

    Kingdom Come

    An interrogation room

    Questions for a senator.

    Spoiler Evans admits diverting Walker shipments and warns that there is a hit out on Aria.

  17. Ch 15Aria

    No Going Back

    Her hotel suite

    The morning after.

    Spoiler They reconcile. A masked man shoots through the bathroom door.

  18. Part Two
  19. Ch 16Torrin

    Line of Fire

    The hotel, the docks, Brooklyn

    A long night.

    Spoiler They kill the assassin and sink him. His ring and his gun point at the Morettis and at Torrin’s stolen shipments. Torrin tells her Bria drugged him.

  20. Ch 17Torrin

    The Fury

    The penthouse

    Someone is watching.

    Spoiler The Brooklyn cash house is cleaned out with a code lifted from his phone. He has to keep up the engagement.

  21. Ch 18Aria

    Tight End

    The pool house

    Back where it started.

    Spoiler “We don’t run.” The proof that made Torrin kill his father came from Enya. They work out that Carmine may be his half-brother.

  22. Ch 19Aria

    Thanks for the Memories

    A gym, then a restaurant

    A message from Bria.

    Spoiler Bria sends a video of Aria and Torrin and threatens the press.

  23. Ch 20Torrin

    Repercussions

    Augustus Ryan’s townhouse

    A doctor’s visit.

    Spoiler A doctor finds a heartbeat. He stays the night beside Bria out of guilt.

  24. Ch 21Aria

    Hermes Bags, Prada Nightmares

    Afternoon tea

    Tea with Enya and Bria.

    Spoiler Bria is wearing the pink diamond and carrying a bag that used to belong to Carmine’s mother.

  25. Ch 22Torrin

    Thunder

    Central Park, in the snow

    A fight in the park.

    Spoiler They fight over the baby and the ring. He turns back and she is gone.

  26. Ch 23Torrin

    Determination

    His office, then Nobu

    Isla pays a visit.

    Spoiler Jax is the son of a Moretti capo. Torrin beats Malachy, who does not fight back.

  27. Ch 24Aria

    Just A Kiss

    Her apartment

    Patching up Malachy.

    Spoiler She almost crosses the line with him again.

  28. Ch 25Aria

    Just Pretend

    The Maldives

    A wedding weekend.

    Spoiler Bria’s medical records say she is not pregnant. Aria overhears that Levi and Isla love each other.

  29. Ch 26Torrin

    Not Too Proud

    The rehearsal dinner

    The rehearsal dinner.

    Spoiler Augustus is collecting Torrin’s stolen weapons on the island. Torrin tells Declan he killed his father.

  30. Ch 27Aria

    Staring At the Night

    The beach

    A night on the beach.

    Spoiler “Don’t ever leave me again.”

  31. Ch 28Torrin

    Never

    The resort

    Torrin and Bria.

    Spoiler He ends it. She still has the video.

  32. Ch 29Aria

    Forsaking All Others

    The wedding

    Levi’s wedding.

    Spoiler Carmine confesses: Enya and Augustus paid him to take the blame, and Cormac Walker was his father. He agrees to help. Aria is knocked out.

  33. Ch 30Torrin

    The Fall

    The island at night

    Aria is missing.

    Spoiler Aria and Beth have been taken. The ransom is the location of Torrin’s weapons in Manhattan.

  34. Ch 31Torrin

    Out of Sight

    The ransom island

    A rescue by sea.

    Spoiler Torrin, Levi and Isla dive in and are captured. Aria, Carmine, Malachy and Declan free them. Jax is the pilot, and Aria kills him. Enya was behind it.

  35. Ch 32Aria

    Put It Back Together

    A graveside, then the Plaza

    Rain over Manhattan.

    Spoiler The tape that leaks is of Isla and Levi, swapped in to protect Aria. Levi’s run for president is over.

  36. Ch 33Torrin

    End Game

    His office

    His mother is waiting.

    Spoiler Enya at gunpoint: Carmine was meant to kill Torrin, not Liam.

  37. Ch 34Torrin

    Retaliation

    His building, then the Brooklyn Bridge

    A car chase.

    Spoiler Declan shoots Enya in the arm. Carmine pulls Torrin and Declan out of a burning car and sends Augustus off the bridge.

  38. Ch 35Aria

    Breathless

    The hospital

    A waiting room.

    Spoiler Bria dies. Torrin makes Aria promise never to leave.

  39. Part Three
  40. Ch 36Carmine

    Do Me A Favor

    Torrin’s lab

    Two men and a map.

    Spoiler “Brother.” Torrin refuses to take Carmine’s life for Liam’s. The stolen weapons are under the Walker building, where Aria has just gone.

  41. Ch 37Aria

    The Fuckening

    Torrin’s office

    Twenty minutes.

    Spoiler Enya locks her in and starts the building’s failsafe. “If we burn, we burn together.”

  42. Ch 38Torrin

    No Relief

    The lobby

    The code.

    Spoiler He chokes Enya until her heart stops, restarts it, and gets the code.

  43. Ch 39Torrin

    Painless

    The building, then the Hamptons

    A choice.

    Spoiler Enya escapes and he goes to Aria first. Aria drives them to the airstrip and spins Enya’s car off the road.

  44. Ch 40Torrin

    Truthful

    A road at dawn

    On their knees.

    Spoiler Beth, alive, shoots Enya’s men. Torrin leaves the verdict to the family.

  45. Ch 41Torrin

    Wildest Dreams

    The North Atlantic

    A slow crossing.

    Spoiler Aria asks why he wanted her. She takes the name Abbot.

  46. Ch 42Aria

    Another Belfast Trip

    Walker Hall

    A holiday party.

    Spoiler “There will be no funeral.”

  47. Ch 43Torrin

    Permission

    Walker Hall

    A cigar with Levi.

    Spoiler Levi gives his blessing. The family exiles Enya. Her helicopter falls out of the sky.

  48. Ch 44Aria

    A Decent Proposal

    The pool house

    The pool house.

    Spoiler He proposes with a blue ring. She says yes.

  49. Ch 45Aria

    Take My Hand

    A castle

    A castle.

    Spoiler A black gown, and a positive pregnancy test.

  50. Ch 46Torrin

    Promises, Promises

    The castle

    Sunset.

    Spoiler Levi marries them.

  51. Ch 47Torrin

    Sealed Our Fate

    The reception

    A dance.

    Spoiler He offers to leave the life and teach chemistry.

  52. Ch 48Torrin

    Epilogue

    The Hamptons, years later

    Years later.

    Spoiler Evie and Liam. Dinner, homework, bedtime. Then the lab behind the bookcase, where Aria is building a smaller bomb.

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