Watchmen for Morning
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Last published Tue, Mar 26, 2013
Watchmen for Morning is a modern-day, globe-trotting, adventurous tale of two young lovers caught in the crosshairs of the Italian mafia, affecting two entire families. An orphaned girl, Delainey Smith, takes a year during college to study abroad in Italy, against her Great-Uncle Einar’s wishes. There she meets a young man named Marco Angelozzi connected to the very mafioso family that terrorizes Einar’s daily thoughts and dreams, not to mention countless others shaken by the Moretti Crime Family in a few different countries. Will they and their families survive to see justice and the end of their persecution?
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