Sofia Mia

<p>Sofia nine and Santino twelve befriend each other on the beach of Mondello Sicily. She is the daughter of an ambitious US Senator. He is the son of a Mafia Capo.</p><p>Every year Sofia's Italian family travels from Washington DC to spend their summer breaks at her Italian grandparents' beach house.</p><p>Her family's prejudice towards Santino's Mafia family abruptly separates them into completely different worlds.</p><p>Sofia is constantly challenged about life's happenings and slowly becomes a resilient young woman in the middle of a tumultuous relationship.</p><p>Santino is angry with life. His mom was accidentally poisoned and died when he was very young leaving Santino suffering from a grief that he endures for many years.</p><p>Fate brings them together again more than twenty years later and the passion of their romance that develops makes it seem that they were destined to be together.</p><p>This novel is about the transformation that reveals what each are made of as they discover who they really are.</p>