Matriarca

Since she was a young girl Francesca has always admired the esteem her father has held throughout Sicily.  His power as the mob boss enamors and lures her to a dangerous world where women are never permitted but she is determined to find her way in.   While working in her mother's restaurant frequented by Mafiosi Francesca meets a young man who prepares her and leads her to her destination in the dark underworld but in a crossroads that puts him against her father in a life or death situation she finds herself forced to kill her own blood.   Through her father's death Francesca inherits his position as Capo of the Sicilian Mafia family and finally finds herself in the place she has always dreamed of but can a girl raised with her proper feminine values survive in the dark underworld?   This book represents a twist in traditional mob stories one of a female mob boss that has never been told.  It has all of the elements of drama sexuality and suspense that a reader would expect from this novel.  It also possesses the ability to expand into a trilogy.