The Art of Death
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Indie Torres was an artist. She made life, beauty and light, and she would tattoo it on to the skin of anyone who paid the right price.
Nico Serrano was an enforcer. He made death, horror and darkness, and would inflict it on anyone who paid the wrong price.
Unfortunately, Indie's brother was one of those people.
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Follow along as Indie gets thrown into Nico's world as she sacrifices herself to pay off her brother's debt to La Casa Nostra. All whilst she's placed under the care of Nico Serrano, La Casa Nostra's top enforcer, to prepare her for The Bidding; the Don's way of Indie repaying her brother's debt - a hell of a lot of stolen cash.
Will Indie hold up her end of the bargain and be shipped of the highest bidder? Or will a particular Enforcer save her from her uncertain, dark future?
The only way to find out is to read on!
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