IN TOO DEEP

Aaliyah Zahra Washington was born into heartbreak, the daughter of a wealthy Arab-Swahili girl who was cast out for falling in love with the wrong boy. Raised in the slums of Nairobi by her single mother, Aaliyah knows struggle intimately. Her life is defined by sacrifice, silence, and survival, until cancer takes her mother and forces her into the care of the man who abandoned them both: Malik Washington, her estranged father.
Whisked away to Italy, Aaliyah is thrown into a world of privilege, power, and cold, polished surfaces. Her father is now a renowned lawyer representing the Italian mafia. With two step-siblings she's never met and a stepmother who barely tolerates her, Aaliyah is a stranger in a golden cage, angry, grieving, and unwilling to forgive. Then she meets Antonio Carlo Romano.
He's everything she should avoid: rich, dangerous, magnetic, and deeply entangled in the criminal world her father serves. But Antonio sees her in a way no one else does. He's the fire to her storm, the passion she never expected. And against her better judgment, she falls, hard.
What begins as intoxicating love quickly unravels into manipulation, betrayal, and heartbreak. When Aaliyah discovers Antonio's lies and his affair, it shatters her. But instead of breaking, she rises. She walks away, chooses herself, and begins to heal. Therapy, forgiveness, school, and starting her own jewelry line become the foundation of the life she rebuilds, and just when she's finally learning how to live without him... Antonio fights to become the man she deserves.
Raw, romantic, and deeply emotional, In Too Deep is a story about second chances, self-discovery, and the kind of love that demands more than words; it demands growth.