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The Song Behind the Forbidden Door
The Song Behind the Forbidden Door For forty-nine consecutive nights, thirty-eight-year-old Lorenzo Moretti lay motionless inside the fortified medical wing of his…
The Stuffed Dog for Toby
The Stuffed Dog for Toby Before sunrise, a three-year-old girl asked a three-billion-dollar tycoon for one stuffed toy dog. But when she…
Hi, Sleeping Man.
“Hi, Sleeping Man.” For twenty years, nobody in the underworld was allowed close enough to touch Damiano Vitale while he slept. Not…
“The Wedding Is the Funeral.”
“The Wedding Is the Funeral.” Less than an hour before he was scheduled to take his marriage vows, Mafia Boss Dominic Moretti…
“Tell Me, Mister… Can I Borrow You for One Whole Day?”
Tell Me, Mister… Can I Borrow You for One Whole Day? Twelve of New York’s most dangerous men had spent the night…
She’s Lying, Sir. There Is No Baby
“She’s Lying, Sir. There Is No Baby.” The private dining room of the Moretti penthouse was fragrant with white roses, roast lamb,…
“That Ring Belongs to My Mommy.”
“That Ring Belongs to My Mommy.” Outside, November rain hammered twenty-foot windows across the most fortified estate on Long Island. Inside, black…
“When I Grow Up, I’m Going to Marry You.”
“When I Grow Up, I’m Going to Marry You.” Alessandro Romano ruled the city with iron discipline and impenetrable silence. In seven…
“You’re Ugly. But You’re Not Evil.”
“You’re Ugly. But You’re Not Evil.” Jude Mercer was the undisputed sovereign of Providence’s underground, wearing a jagged scar down his…
I Knelt Beside a Mafia Boss’s Screaming Son With a Glass of Milk — Then His Fake Fiancée Arrangement Put Me Face to Face With the Man I Watched Kill Someone
I Knelt Beside a Mafia Boss’s Screaming Son With a Glass of Milk — Then His Fake Fiancée Arrangement Put Me Face…