Tuesday Teaser: The Good Daughter A Mafia Story
Hello! I don’t know how often I’ll be blogging but I promise I am going to try to do it somewhat regularly, just because my writing muscles need to be worked out after lying dormant for so long. The struggle is real.
With the upcoming World Cup, I thought I’d do some teasers of The Good Daughter to jog all our memories, especially since I have finished the next book in the Vista Security Series (called Forced to Trust). Ok, it’s a VERY ROUGH draft and will need a lot of clean up, but at least it is finished. I used to love, love, love the editing part, but again with that whole lax writing muscles needing to be whipped back into shape, I look at it and think . . . I don’t wanna. And then, of course, I make myself and once I start editing, I don’t want to stop. Which is problematic on the days I have to work (like today).
As a reminder, The Good Daughter was originally inspired by a World Cup and the sent-me-into-a-depression-for-six-weeks results of that particular World Cup final, sigh. But a dear friend gave me an inspiration and I thought . . .I can write a book like that! And I did. Originally, I didn’t intend it to be a series, it was just a book I HAD to write. If I’d thought about it growing into a series, I would have named it something different with “Trust” in the title to keep with the theme of the rest of the series. I’m still going to check in with Amazon and see if I can change the name without having to lose all the wonderful reviews my readers have left over the years.
Anyway, just a teaser of how the World Cup affected poor Sandro and the choices he’d been forced to make, which ultimately led to his wife and child being taken hostage by the mafia . . . and how Marisa, the mafia princess, stepped up to help.
from The Good Daughter: A Mafia Story (Vista Security Book 1)
Sandro had been manipulated like a puppet for too many years. More than once, doing what he thought he had to do meant violating his honor. Missing the all-important free kick in the World Cup game that would have brought honor to his whole country, being forced into laundering money in the restaurant business he’d built for his family.
Now, doing what he had to do meant drawing the imaginary line to regain his lost honor as well as his wife. He would settle for no less. Once and for all, he wanted the Mafia out of his life, and his family together and safe again. He wanted a normal life. One not haunted with distress and deceit and danger.
Sandro remembered when once everything looked so hopeful. A time of sweetness and innocence. A time when the future promised a life brimming with happiness. A time before Carlo had brought the Mafia into his life.
At this time, The Good Daughter is only available on Amazon but I am considering making it available on all platforms when the next book is ready to publish. What do you think?
