Trust gets you killed
Love get you hurt
And being real get you hated
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Callista has everything figured out, ever since she was little she has wanted to become a doctor. All she has to do is survive one more year of school, keep her grades up, and stay out of trouble, which should not be too hard. She was the poster child for good behaviour.
Alessandra, Alessa for short, is a free spirit who lives for danger and getting herself into messy situations that her twin brother usually has step in and help her. She hates being, told what to do and is fiercely protective of the people she cares about.
Aurelio is every bit the troublemaker his sister is, but making his father proud and taking over the family business one day means he has to be the responsible one of the two even when he would love more than anything to be as carefree has his sister.
Alessandra and Aurelio De Luca born and raised in a life fill of guns, drugs, and violence. No one gets into more trouble than these twins.
Callista who flinches at the mention of hurting a fly, and panics if she is even a minute late for school.
Three people, two very different lives.
What will Callista do when she finds herself befriending a girl that gets her in more trouble than she bargains for, and falls in love with the one boy that she should of stayed far away from...?
Life isn't always simple, and not everything always goes as planned.
Callista Genovese never wanted to be part of the family business. She enjoyed the anonymity of being a teacher in a land where she was not the killer queen. But like always, family tends to ruin everything.
Callista was dragged back to New York with a mission to ruin the wedding of the year. As if that wasn't enough, she was caught up in a war between the two mafia kings.
With scandals and secrets trailing at her feet, can she get what she truly desires?
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"You ever think about marriage, Callista?"
"Not really."
"You can marry me."
"That was the shittiest proposal I have ever heard."
"Should I kneel?"
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"I was afraid, not because I thought she wasn't the one. I was terrified because I knew she was."
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{ EXTENDED SUMMARY INSIDE }
| LOVE-HATE | LOVE TRIANGLE |
| ROMANCE | ACTION | MYSTERY | MAFIA | ANGST |
WINNER Bridge to Fantasy Awards
#1 on ELITE 4/27/20
#1 on MINDGAMES 7/21/20
#1 on ACTION-ROMANCE 10/12/20
[first draft]
[cover image from unsplash/daniel rykhev]