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Omerta: Journey to the Past
Looking down on Las Vegas, lovingly wrapped in Tony's arms. It was a moment she would keep deep in her heart, forever.
"Look at this-The City of Gold!" Evelyn exclaimed as Tony kissed her forehead.
"And it's all ours, Eve!"
Thus begins a heartwarming and harrowing tale of life and forbidden love lost to one generation and found in the next. Caught between a turbulent love triangle that shook the very foundations of the Mafia's Las Vegas Empire, and a deadly struggle for wealth and power, Mob Boss and "King of Las Vegas" Tony Torino, his mistress hustler and onetime showgirl Evelyn Rosenberg, and her husband top Chicago mobster Charlie "Gus" Rosenberg live and love in defiance of the violent and unforgiving laws of the Mafia. All that remains is Evelyn's carefully preserved diary left by Gus to be discovered by his daughter Adriane and Tony's son Victor as they pack up her late father's belongings. Through the vivid and brilliant use of flashbacks, juxtaposed with current events, we witness one of the most beautiful and ill-fated love stories of the last century. As Victor, a forest ranger who fled his family's Mob past, and Adriane, an attorney being pressured to work for the Mafia, read through the diary old hatreds and new alliances rise leaving us to wonder if history will repeat itself.
"Look at this-The City of Gold!" Evelyn exclaimed as Tony kissed her forehead.
"And it's all ours, Eve!"
Thus begins a heartwarming and harrowing tale of life and forbidden love lost to one generation and found in the next. Caught between a turbulent love triangle that shook the very foundations of the Mafia's Las Vegas Empire, and a deadly struggle for wealth and power, Mob Boss and "King of Las Vegas" Tony Torino, his mistress hustler and onetime showgirl Evelyn Rosenberg, and her husband top Chicago mobster Charlie "Gus" Rosenberg live and love in defiance of the violent and unforgiving laws of the Mafia. All that remains is Evelyn's carefully preserved diary left by Gus to be discovered by his daughter Adriane and Tony's son Victor as they pack up her late father's belongings. Through the vivid and brilliant use of flashbacks, juxtaposed with current events, we witness one of the most beautiful and ill-fated love stories of the last century. As Victor, a forest ranger who fled his family's Mob past, and Adriane, an attorney being pressured to work for the Mafia, read through the diary old hatreds and new alliances rise leaving us to wonder if history will repeat itself.
237 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 201
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About the author
Sasha Fino
8 books11 followers“Writing comes within my soul while the words flow out of me.”
Let me finally induce myself.
As a certified disability advocate, CP gal, and author of beautiful and heartfelt novels, Amanda Forry/Fino understands the struggles disabled people go through. Under her pen name Sasha Fino, she strives to bring her novels to life. In spite of Cerebral Palsy, Sasha published all different types of books under this name. Your perception of her disability is not accurate; she can write romance as well as anyone else. There are six of her novels: Omerta: Journey to the Past, Kingpin, My Vegas Confessions, Sedona's Heart, and Blue Bell; a Dark Academy Romance. One is featured in the limited-time anthology Witchy Wonders.
Amanda is a part of the DC Author’s Dinner Group that’s included some of the most significant bestselling authors of our time. When Amanda isn’t writing, she is a disability rights advocate, active Alumni, Leader, and Presenter with the Virginia Board for People with Disabilities, Training Alumni Association (TAA), and Public Speaker. Amanda lives with her family in Williamsburg, Virginia. While Amanda enjoys books, walking, and wine, she also enjoys blogging on her website cpgal.com in her spare time.
Let me finally induce myself.
As a certified disability advocate, CP gal, and author of beautiful and heartfelt novels, Amanda Forry/Fino understands the struggles disabled people go through. Under her pen name Sasha Fino, she strives to bring her novels to life. In spite of Cerebral Palsy, Sasha published all different types of books under this name. Your perception of her disability is not accurate; she can write romance as well as anyone else. There are six of her novels: Omerta: Journey to the Past, Kingpin, My Vegas Confessions, Sedona's Heart, and Blue Bell; a Dark Academy Romance. One is featured in the limited-time anthology Witchy Wonders.
Amanda is a part of the DC Author’s Dinner Group that’s included some of the most significant bestselling authors of our time. When Amanda isn’t writing, she is a disability rights advocate, active Alumni, Leader, and Presenter with the Virginia Board for People with Disabilities, Training Alumni Association (TAA), and Public Speaker. Amanda lives with her family in Williamsburg, Virginia. While Amanda enjoys books, walking, and wine, she also enjoys blogging on her website cpgal.com in her spare time.
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March 12, 2021
Wow! What a story!
I confess this story took me some time to read. Why? The lack of punctuation and misplaced quotes and typos. However overlooking all those edit errors yielded a fantastic story. Not just one story but two stories simultaneously interwoven. I had to query the definition of Omerta and was given the definition of silence in Italian. Although the author assured me it is defined in its text, it isn’t clearly emphasized. I thought loyalty, honor, devotion because of its phrasing in the mafia story and context. No, silence and not talking to law enforcement. I hope she updates with this definition at the beginning to prevent confusion as I experienced along with the grammar and edit corrections. A realistic happy ending of the current story to coincide a beautiful poetic ending with a bittersweet happy conclusion of the past. I don’t know what else to say other than a must read - preferably after all the proofreading corrections. True love - always a wonderful thing to read.
I confess this story took me some time to read. Why? The lack of punctuation and misplaced quotes and typos. However overlooking all those edit errors yielded a fantastic story. Not just one story but two stories simultaneously interwoven. I had to query the definition of Omerta and was given the definition of silence in Italian. Although the author assured me it is defined in its text, it isn’t clearly emphasized. I thought loyalty, honor, devotion because of its phrasing in the mafia story and context. No, silence and not talking to law enforcement. I hope she updates with this definition at the beginning to prevent confusion as I experienced along with the grammar and edit corrections. A realistic happy ending of the current story to coincide a beautiful poetic ending with a bittersweet happy conclusion of the past. I don’t know what else to say other than a must read - preferably after all the proofreading corrections. True love - always a wonderful thing to read.
February 11, 2021
Incredible, Astonishing and Phenomenal
Wow, what an amazing book. Tony's and Evelyn's love story simply blew me away. I had she'd so many years. Thank you Sasha for an amazing and heartfelt book.
Wow, what an amazing book. Tony's and Evelyn's love story simply blew me away. I had she'd so many years. Thank you Sasha for an amazing and heartfelt book.
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