Ill-Gotten Memories

In 1980's New York, Barbara Fritz is the "meek and mild" little librarian assistant that nobody thinks twice about. Shy, soft-spoken, and ridiculously self-critical, she doesn't turn any heads. Not until she brutally kills her own father in cold blood.

It was the end, she'd hoped; the tragic conclusion to her darkest secrets, nightmares, and the constant torture afflicting her mind. But worst of all, the end of her life.

But someone stepped in before it was too late.

A stranger.

Johnathan Giacchino is New York's most feared member of the Giacchino family mafia ring, run by his uncle Cesare. To various business owners and other crime factions also operating in the city, he is known simply as "The Doc" for his unique torture skills revolving around human anatomy. But not many know about his softer side. His heart of gold. His aspirations to be acceptable in the eyes of God. And nobody knows about his lifelong affection for his high school sweetheart... Barbara Fritz. Except now, it's turned into an obsession... and maybe it always has been?

He was there when Barbara did the unthinkable. He saved her life. But she doesn't remember him. She can't. Separated as young lovers in an event so terrible, it mutilated her memories, and now she is a shell of her former self. She is haunted by the past. But the good times are lost.

Johnathan vows to protect her from the consequences of killing her father, because he was the Shaw family's right-hand man, and they will be very displeased with his death. He can feel a mafia war brewing, but nothing else matters to him except her safety... even if he must betray his own family.

Making Barbara forget her murderous act is just the beginning.

ILL-GOTTEN MEMORIES. A DARK MAFIA ROMANCE.

Tropes list:

" Amnesia / I Forgot I Fell in Love With You " (dissociative amnesia and drug induced amnesia)
" Sad Girl "
" Overprotective Male Lead "
" Stalker "
" Middle-Aged / Silver Fox "
" Second Chance Romance "
" Next Door Neighbors "