Everyone told me Anthony Juliano was the wrong man to date. I was determined to prove them wrong; it’s not the first time an idea’s backfired, but it’s certainly the worst. I knew he had a few secrets, but I never guessed being the mob boss of Buffalo, NY was one of them. Running in terror when I found out was probably not the best escape plan, and it only proved to infuriate him.
Here’s my problem: he owns the cops, he owns the streets, and he put a bounty on my red-head. But he doesn’t know my temper’s flared too, I’m going to take him down. I’m pretty sure my plan will work. I’d blown up my car this morning, and it had gone well, sort of. Then I’d met a kid named Cooney, who’d probably saved my rear on the streets. He says mine is a hopeless case, unless I can convince Juliano’s right-hand man Joe to protect me.
That’s me. Deeply considering the plan of a 12-year-old street kid to force a mobster to protect me from his boss. Sure wish another option would present itself. It doesn’t help that Joe looks like an Abercrombie and Fitch model, or that I land with a splat at his feet.
Did I mention Juliano also runs a dog fighting ring? When I escaped the kennel, he had me locked in; I saved an injured bulldog. He’s the reason I’d skied through the mud straight up to Joe, but he’s also another reason I can’t back down. I’ve got to save the dogs.
Myrrh for Mafia Men, A Drop of Mystery #5
Genre: Cozy
Release: November 2022
Autumn Braxton is dating the wrong man. Everyone told her that, but Juliano’s good looks, money, and Italian charm blind her. The night she discovers he’s a mob boss her entire world crumbles. But Juliano doesn’t get dumped. His men find her and he puts Autumn in one of his dog fighting kennels until she’s ready to come back to him. She escapes, saving the injured dog. But Juliano owns everything, especially the cops. She determines to take down his entire operation. A street kid befriends her and convinces her she needs Juliano’s right hand man to protect her.
Joe, however, has other plans. He takes Autumn to a movie studio to be fitted for a new silicone face, then introduces Her as his girlfriend from Rochester. What’s his angle, does he plan to use Autumn as a weapon to climb to Juliano’s position? Can Autumn keep from falling in love with a second Mafia man?
Meet the author
C.R. Fulton travels the east coast in an RV with her husband, two kids, and three dogs, Atlantic, Ocean, and Seashell. She is also an essential oil lover, so marring oils with murder mystery writing seemed natural. She is the author of A Drop of Mystery, (a cozy mystery series with essential oils at their heart), The Light of Andrea, a Robin Hood style action-adventure series, and a best-selling midgrade series, The Campground Kids. Acrylic painting fuels her writing creativity, homeschooling her children keeps her sharp, but Jesus is the center of it all.
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