In the Company of Killers
INSIDE THE LAVISH SUBURB OF SCARSDALE IS NEW YORK’S WORST-kept secret: The mob is at the center of everything. Seventeen-year-old Tasha Nicastro lives a life of glitz and glamour, but she has no idea her world is darker than it appears. When her father and beloved older sister are brutally murdered, Tasha learns that her family runs the most powerful Mafia branch in New York. And now she must accept her deadly inheritance if she wants to survive.
As Tasha navigates wearing her new crown, she vows vengeance on the mysterious new mob behind the hit—but she can’t do it alone. She needs someone who already knows the underground world—and that person is none other than Leo Danesi, the heir to his own family’s dangerous empire. The bitter rivals put aside old grievances to hunt through the glittering streets and dim alleys of New York, doing their best to ignore the forbidden attraction that grows between them, all while realizing their new enemy’s power runs deeper than they ever could have imagined.
But Tasha has been raised in the company of killers, and there’s nothing she won’t do to avenge her family. That is, if the enemy doesn’t put her in gold handcuffs first.
Equal parts thrilling and romantic, In the Company of Killers will leave readers breathless until the very last page.
ON THE GLITTERING STREETS OF NEW YORK IS THE CITY'S WORST KEPT SECRET: the mob. And Natasha Nicastro is at the centre of it all . . .
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Seventeen-year-old Tasha Nicastro lives a life of glitz and glamour, but she has no idea her family harbours a dark truth.
Tasha might look like your classic high school mean girl, but behind the designer clothes is a sharpshooter who knows how to bring anyone to their knees. The only person who has ever gotten under her skin is her former best friend, Leo Danesi, the youngest son of the Nicastro family's rivals. After Leo returns to New York older and more handsome, Tasha thinks he'll be the worst of her problems - until the life she thought she knew takes a violent, shocking turn. When her father and beloved older sister are murdered before her eyes, Tasha learns the dark truth: Her family runs the most powerful Mafia branch in New York, and now she's set to inherit it all.
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Tasha vows vengeance on the mysterious new mob behind the hit, but she can't do it alone. She needs someone who already knows the underground world to help track them down. And that person is none other than Leo, the heir to his own family's dangerous empire.
But Tasha is a Nicastro. She's been raised in the company of killers, and there's absolutely nothing she won't do to avenge her family. That is, if the enemy doesn't put her in gold chains first.
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Gossip Girl meets The Sopranos in this fast-paced drama about a teenage mafia heiress who would do anything to avenge her family, even join forces with her handsome enemy.
