Author: laurarossi

El Diablo è morto. The Devil is dead.In the underworld when a leader falls, another leader is ready to rise. I’m that leader. This is my time to rule.But stepping into my brother’s shoes, comes with a price, an inheritance of both gold and blood.Are you ready for a war? No rules, no boundaries. Every man for himself.It’s showdown.“You take from me, I take from you. I’m heartless and abide to one … heartless and abide to one rule and one rule only: protect La Famiglia.Protect my own blood. The rest of you don’t count. My name is Ramirez, Ramirez…

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“Don’t feel bad for me, I’m a sinner. I wear the cross not because I’m worthy, but because I need it more than anyone else, more than any faithful, pure heart. I need it like any other sinner, as a shield, to help me not fall into the vortex of sin.”Are you ready for Donna Filomena – The Lady of the Mafia? Are you ready for her deepest secrets, her lies, her sacrifices?“The Secret dies with me.”… Secret dies with me.”This is a dark novella, following the novel Scars, based on the character of Donna Filomena, Alejandro De la Crux’s…

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My name is Melodie and I’m in love with a guy, but he doesn’t know.He walks by every day, I catch him staring, listening to me sing and play my guitar. I don’t even know his name.Crazy I know but I can’t stop thinking about Office Guy. That’s what I secretly call him, Office Guy.We’ve never even spoken to each other, but then one day he walks up to me and…

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I gasped for air and counted my last breaths.One, pain shot up my stomach.Two, my throat burned.I kept looking at the sky, as I lost any will to move.Before my eyes closed, my last thoughts were for Andrea.They thought prison would change me, that isolation would make me weak, maybe break me. But I wasn’t alone, I always had the darkness with me.My name is Alejandro De la Crux and I never let … me.My name is Alejandro De la Crux and I never let anyone cross me without paying the price, their lives for my honour.I was left to…

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What happens when you are asked to give up what you love? When you are forced to end your career?Born to Run is about Noah Laurent, a secondary character in the Counterpoints series -a top race driver who is asked to leave his team at the end of the series.Noah is cold blooded, brutally honest and just doesn’t care about anything and anyone. He’s made his way up the ladder all by himself. He’s … himself. He’s well known for his outbursts with the press and in the boxes. But he’s also an ace, a top driver.And just when he…

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My name is Sebastian, but they call me the Killer. I have never lost a fight; never let anyone touch me without regretting it. I am a fighter, that’s how I survive in the gutter that is The Market, a neighborhood in the outskirts of Rome.Rome, the city of eternal beauty. But also the city of lost souls. When gangster Alejandro de la Crux wanted to have a word with me, I had no idea what was … was coming. He wanted me- the Killer- to protect his ex-wife and his son, while he went into hiding. Someone wanted him…

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“I am afraid to take a step forward and…miss the ground beneath my feet. You know, that awful feeling that you are going to hit the floor hard”“Who says you will miss the ground?” she could hear him smile.“What If I do though?”“You’d fall down and then get back up again”When Isabella lands the job of her dreams, she knows her life won’t be the same again, especially when her task is to travel … her task is to travel the world with a car race team.Leaving behind her family and loved ones, she embarks on a journey across continents,…

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