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For sixteen years, Anastasia survived on instinct, street smarts, and sheer stubbornness. She had no family, no past, and no name worth knowing. She was just a girl who knew how to fight and how to disappear.
Until the day everything changed.
A fight after school. A police station. A routine blood test. And a match that shakes the most powerful crime family on the eastern seaboard to its core.
Anastasia Lombardi - the lost daughter of Italian Mafia Don Amerigo Lombardi - has been found.
Suddenly, she has ten brothers who would burn the world to protect her, a mother who never stopped grieving, a grandfather who rules with an iron fist and a cane that hides a blade, and a bodyguard named Elias Rossi who is equal parts lethal and infuriating. She has an empire at her back and a target on her chest.
But the Lombardi family has an enemy - Victor Morretti, the man who stole her from a hospital bassinet the night she was born. And as the family wages war to destroy him, Anastasia must decide: is she the stray girl who survived alone, or is she the Lombardi princess who was always meant to reign?
Dark, fierce, and impossible to put down, Bloodlines & Shadows is a story about blood, belonging, and the terrifying truth that the most dangerous secrets are always kept closest to home.
The war is just the beginning. The real enemy is already inside the gates.