mafia

Don Raymonde Aprile, retired after a long career of organized crime, is assassinated by a pair of hit men who believe there is no one left to seek revenge, but they did not count on the Don's adopted "nephew" from Sicily, a child raised unlike Aprile's own three children to take over the crime family.

Bernard James, Jr., also known as Dutch, takes a stolen heroin business and turns it into the East Coast's most feared drug empire, but his underhanded business deals attract all kinds of enemies and lead to a shocking betrayal that will put everything Dutch cares about at risk.

A woman in her twenties, who has been in the Witness Protection Program since she was six years old, tires of constantly changing her name and lifestyle, and willingly goes with the man who knows her true identity, the Mafioso who was hired to kill her.

Wealthy and powerful Wall Street broker Jeffrey Blaine grabs an opportunity that arrives with four young mobsters at his daughter's star-studded eighteenth birthday celebration.

Annie is Juror 224. A sculptor with a career going nowhere. A single mother struggling to raise a son. A good citizen who has been summoned to what looks like a routine tour of civic duty. But the trial she is called to serve on is no ordinary trial. It is a mob trial, whose outcome has been meticulously orchesterated by a man of insidious power and deadly precision. A man who lives by the teachings of Lao Tsu...whose magnetism is irresistible...whose mind is as brilliant as it is twisted. He is known to some as the Teacher, and he's set his sights on Annie Laird. Pulled into the most chilling depths of the criminal underworld, Annie will be seduced by double-edged promises, stalked by the specter of terror, then, finally driven to a shocking decision by the most basic motivation a woman can know.