BREATHE FOR ME

The Full Blurb

Genevieve Fletcher was just a normal girl. When her world is turned upside down on her tenth birthday, Gen's life will never be the same, changing the person she is and the person she is to become. Living with a life-threatening lung defect, Gen has to watch from a distance as her family falls apart as a result of her own dysfunctional body, slowing destroying any hope of a future for herself and the people she loves. She is haunted everyday by the same looming question: What is the point of life when you can never really live? To Gen, life is a matter of being born, staying alive and dying. And then everything changes. In her junior year of high school, Gen is offered a better life with a new treatment plan. Moving to Phoenix, Arizona with her family, Gen is determined to start a new chapter of her life and make the most of the time she has. When she meets the impossibly beautiful Lorenzo, a closed-off Italian teenager with a determination to break Gen out of her comfort zone, her life goes from one extreme to the other. Lorrie sets her soul on fire, making her feel alive for the first time in seven years. Now motivated to make the most of her life, he helps Gen realise that sometimes, the scary moments in life are often the most beautiful. But being with Lorrie is almost impossible and as he starts to push her away, Gen fights back to discover his dark truth. Will Gen fight for this new life that Lorrie has given to her or will she let him go, fading back into her sad reality?

Lorenzo Marchesi is a seventeen year old boy, living with his large Italian community in Phoenix, Arizona. From a distance, everything seems normal about him. Except, it's not. Lorrie, and his family of Italian citizens, is part of a government-scheme protection gang, dedicated to taking down some of America's most dangerous criminals. Known as The Rose Street boys, these Italian mercenaries are feared and widely avoided across Arizona from the moment they turn fifteen, the moment they begin to train as gang members. Growing up on Rose Street, the first-born son of one of the original Rose Street boys, Lorrie has heavy expectations resting on his shoulders. Including the looming fact that he is advised never to fall in love unless he is prepared to face the consequences. For Lorrie this is easy given that he would put his duty before anything else, until the mysterious new girl, Genevieve, moves to the city, changing the way he sees the world and himself. Fighting his heart with his head, will Lorrie succeed in remaining dedicated to The Rose Street boys? Or will he let himself feel for the first time and fall in love, facing the consequences later?