Sunflowers and Sphinxes
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"You'll find a family one day that can love you how you deserve."
Ivy thinks of her life as one big riddle. She's spent her life trying to find the family she was promised in that note. By now, though, she's given up on trying to find a family. She's content with her lonely life, working in the little bookstore a few blocks from her apartment. After helping a lost little boy, Ivy might have an opportunity to find her place in a family. The only catch is that she would be in the De Luca family, the most powerful and infamous mafia family in the country.
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