Queen of Secrets

<h4><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mafia Queen Rules</strong></h4><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Keep your mouth shut.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In the dusty summer orchards of 1939 San Jose California seventeen-year-old Violetta Giordano lives a bucolic life. But appearances are deceptive. In the Giordano family ties to the Mafia stretch as far away as Sicily and bind just as tightly.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sacrifice your heart and soul.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery sexual desire and forbidden love with a handsome young immigrant named Gaetano Violetta's plans are uprooted when she is forced into an arranged marriage with one of the most notorious crime bosses in the country. To protect her family and the man she loves Violetta tempers her heart and surrenders her sanity.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Endure a life of treachery and abuse.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The deeper Violetta submerges into her underground macabre world the harder it is to gauge her morality. Such is the life of a Mafia queen.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Play the game to survive. No one refuses a Don and gets away with it. The mob always collects.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Edgy and emotional ruthless and romantic </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Queen of Secrets</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is told through the captivating lens of two courageous women whose mother-daughter bond-not of blood but through blood-is their only escape.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Queen of Secrets</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> book one in the Mafia Matriarch series seamlessly blends the female-centric journey and uncertain HEA of women's fiction with the beloved romance tropes of forbidden love first love coming of age innocent to queen and arranged marriage. Although primarily an epic love story with sizzling-hot love scenes the book contains some content related to criminal behavior domestic violence self-harm sexual aggression and drug abuse that some readers may find uncomfortable. 18+ only.</span></p><p></p>