The Roaring
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Última publicación lun, nov 9, 2020
1920s New York City
Think Gossip Girl meets The Great Gatsby . . .
This is The Roaring: Where glitz and glamour, murder and scandal, & love and heartbreak create a perfect cocktail of rather fascinating events. The Roaring follows the lives of six extra special wealthy Manhattan adolescents, in which one of them conveniently happens to be of a mafia family. The novel is filled with stories and events that our main characters are thrown into between the years of 1925 and 1926. The deeper you read, the deeper the stories become.
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