Books

The I Veri saga, and a family story — with more to come.

The I Veri series · as DM Matthews

Where the powerful leave a black stone, I Veri leave a white one.

I Veri — the True Ones — follows generations of one Sicilian family through a long, patient war against organised silence, from the hill towns above Palermo to the tenements, ironworks and harbours of turn-of-the-century New York.

The Gabellotto’s Daughter

I Veri, Book One · DM Matthews
Out now — in eBook, paperback and signed copies

Caccamo, Sicily, 1873. Giovanna Galbo is seventeen when she finds her father dead on the church bench at first light — a black river stone placed in each of his open palms. The town calls it misfortune and looks away. She knows better. Castro Galbo was the gabellotto, keeper of the records that could make or break a family — and someone needed those records to lie. The stones say this matter is finished. Giovanna will spend thirty years proving it is not.

Paperback 978-1-0667953-2-1 · 6 × 9 in · 155pp · cream · Ebook 978-1-0667953-3-8

The Last Name

I Veri, Book Two · DM Matthews
Spring 2027

Sicily and New York, 1901–1903. The reckoning a generation in the making — and the saga’s crossing to America. Cenza carries her mother’s work across an ocean into a country that will not let her do it unseen; in Sicily, Giovanna settles a debt thirty years old.

Paperback 978-1-0667953-4-5 · 6 × 9 in · cream · Ebook 978-1-0667953-5-2

The Current

I Veri, Book Three · DM Matthews
Coming

A body turns in the river, and the current carries it — and behind everything, another current: the unseen line of power and money running through all that The Hand has built. The saga’s reckoning moves closer to the source.

A family story · as Donna Matthews

The Beads He Carried

Donna Matthews
20 March 2027

Sicily, 1913. Six-year-old Giuseppe Cassaro leaves the bakery in Caccamo before dawn, his mother’s hand in one of his and a string of worn beads in the other — the one thing of his father’s small enough to carry across an ocean. Spanning the better part of a century and drawn from real family history, The Beads He Carried is a novel about what we leave, what we keep, and the small sacred things that make the crossing with us.

Paperback 978-1-0667953-0-7 · A5, 148 × 210 mm · 340pp · cream, matte · Ebook 978-1-0667953-1-4 · Publication 20 March 2027