BLOOD & BETRAYAL SYNOPSIS

Acquitted of killing his daughter Gabriella’s fiancé Bruno Romano, Sebastian Marino celebrates his freedom, but not for long. As he leaves the courtroom and gets into his limousine, the car erupts in a fiery explosion, killing him.
 
Detectives Evan Matthews and Peter Harris, having just closed the Romano case, now open the investigation into Sebastian’s demise.
 
As the search for Sebastian’s murderer commences, his children position themselves to take over the helm of Marino International. Believing himself to be the rightful heir to his father’s throne, Sebastian’s eldest son Marco warns his siblings that he will become the sole head of the company one way or another.
 
Marco’s fiancée Kristen Lee encourages him to do whatever is necessary to take control of the company while Kristen herself seeks revenge against her ex-husband Daniel.
 
Sebastian’s twin children, Dante and Gabriella, cope with their father’s death in their own different ways. Having lost her fiancé and now her father, Gabi falls into a state of depression. Dante views the death of Sebastian, who never accepted him as a gay man, as an opportunity to move ahead in the family empire and perhaps reunite with his ex-boyfriend Peter. Meanwhile, Allegra, Sebastian’s youngest child, puts into motion her own scheme to seize the family dynasty.
 
Daniel Pierce, head of Pierce Enterprises and rival of the Marino family, seeks to purchase Palmer Farms from its owner Cody Palmer before Marino International can acquire it. He makes Cody a generous offer; however, Cody doesn’t want to get caught in the crosshairs of the Marino-Pierce feud and needs time to consider the deal.
 
In the meantime, Daniel’s son Joseph, an internationally famous model, looks forward to his wedding to Allegra, who is pregnant. When Joseph suggests to his father that the wedding could finally bring the two families together, Daniel becomes enraged and reminds his son how the families became rivals in the first place.
 
Daniel’s husband Barrett Andrews, who owns the modeling agency for which Joseph works, hasn’t spoken to his own son Lance in a very long time. Barrett asks Joseph to reach out to Lance in the hope that he can help mend the relationship between father and son.
 
While Joseph seeks out Lance, Allegra sleeps with Cody and persuades him to enter into a business agreement with her instead of Daniel. At the same time, Daniel visits his sister Connie, who is the source of the two families’ rivalry, at the long-term care medical facility where she is receiving treatment.
 
As Joseph and Allegra’s engagement party approaches, Victor Romano, Bruno’s father, carries out his plan for revenge, putting the life of a Marino family member in grave danger.