Francesca Lastra was promised to Antonio Giordano, Don of a powerful mafia family, when she was just eighteen. Brooding, violent, and unpredictable, Antonio demands complete submission from his wife as she struggles to be the Donna the family needs. Just when Francesca seems to be making headway in her role and in her marriage, tragedy strikes, and Antonio will need her in ways she never imagined.
Age Rating: 18+ (Assault, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Drug Use/Overdose, Human Trafficking, Kidnapping, Rape, Self-Harm, Sexual Assault/Abuse, Statutory Rape, Suicide, Torture, Violence Against Women, Violent Death, Pedophilia)
Francesca Lastra was promised to Antonio Giordano, Don of a powerful mafia family, when she was just eighteen. Brooding, violent, and unpredictable, Antonio demands complete submission from his wife as she struggles to be the Donna the family needs. Just when Francesca seems to be making headway in her role and in her marriage, tragedy strikes, and Antonio will need her in ways she never imagined.
Age Rating: 18+ (Assault, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Drug Use/Overdose, Human Trafficking, Kidnapping, Rape, Self-Harm, Sexual Assault/Abuse, Statutory Rape, Suicide, Torture, Violence Against Women, Violent Death, Pedophilia)
FRANCESCA
THE RULES
“mafia is family.” — mafia puppet
LA NOSTRA VITA
uno | “he who is deaf, blind, and silent shall live a hundred years in peace.” follow ~o~mertà~, the code of silence, and one shall live to see the next dawn
due | one should not interfere in another brother’s business. do your own thing.
tre | one shall not engage in a battle they cannot win. play beside the Family or face the doors of hell.
quattro | be a man of honor. do not touch, see, or feel another brother’s women. respect the elders.
cinque | keep the ears and eyes open but the mouth shut. don’t sell your brothers or enemies out. face the punishments like a man of honor.
sei| have class and independence. do not beg.
sette | one shall see the doors of hell before betraying our secrets.
otto | one must never become involved with narcotics.
THE PENALTY
death.
THE RITUALS
one shall be one of us with the prick of a needle at the base of his thumb, conjoining the blood on a burning card passed around to all.
we are men of honor and he will be our brother.
amen.