Eleanor De Costa. The Princess of the Italian Mafia kept far away from her empire for a decade, being thrown on a boarding school for the rich and elite since she was just an 8 year old little sweetheart. Separated from her older brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts, and grandparents with no contact.
Now that she has graduated as valedictorian, she's ready to go back home.
However as she steps back into her childhood walls, greets the faces of whom abandoned her at such a young age, Eleanor can't help but feel angry. Revenger starts becoming a craving as needed as air. But as she strives to hunt and harm, ignoring the battle wounds reopening, she starts to ask questions, questions that challenge the morals she built her mental wall around.
When do the consequences outweigh the prizes? When does the heart finally speak against the mind?
When is it enough?
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"The hollow hole in your soul that just for some reason keeps on growing. The loneliness slowly overcoming you. Slow enough for lack of realization yet sure enough to surely over rule you're senses one day. The kind that only family would ever dare leave in their absence."
"I have my friends to fill that hole."
"You can't heal a bullet wound with a bandage."
Valda Giordano has been living her life as Amara Williams because that was who she was because she didn't know there was a Valda.
She grew up with her mother and stepfather, everything was perfect until her mother became pregnant and her once-loving stepfather left them with nothing. Now caring for her 6-month-old baby brother and a mother with postpartum psychosis.
Struggling with school and two jobs to care for her brother and afford her mother's treatments. Her mother becomes someone else she doesn't know, and she is lost. And Amara also has to deal with a life-threatening condition.
After her mother's tragic death, leaving her and her baby brother, she finds out her mother kept a whole other family from her. Now with 5 brothers and a father she didn't know existed. She has to navigate through her new life and trauma that she is desperate to keep hidden. And learn how to be Valda Giordano that she used to be, all in order to keep her baby brother safe.
Turns out she isn't the only one with secrets.
Follow Valda and her family through the dangers that follow them. Running from death that wants them in its grasp, but nothing can happen to a Giordano, right?
Started: 02/05/2025
Finished: ???
This is a lost sister story, xx
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