The story starts in 1986, two years after Maria’s kidnapping. Nicky is the head of his family. He is taking Sal to see the mausoleum he built for their mother and father. Sal is living in a mental ward after he smothered his parents. Nicky believes someone got to Sal and made him do it. At the grave site Sal is shot and falls to his knees. Nicky thinks he is crying but then sees the blood. Then Nicky is shot. Pauley and Rocky rush Nicky to the hospital, Sal is already dead.
Lana gets a call from Cherry Bomb to tell Mo Jo that Nicky has been shot and is in a coma. Mo Jo is America’s most wanted as John Morrison. He travels to the US as Maj. Nelson, the name he borrows from a sitcom. He has people to clear his flight as a NATO secret agent at Steward Air Force Base. He reminisces on Nicky other ‘shooting.’
Mo Jo goes to the hospital in ’78’ because his people reported that Nicky was the victim of an assassination attempt. When he arrives, he can tell Nicky is faking. Nicky tells Mo Jo of his plan to finally gain control of the NY Mob. He has Carmella kill Angela because Nicky had jilted her. He would help Carmella take down the other family and make her a boss. Mo Jo points out the flaw in his plan, that Angela’s father would never stop looking for her killer. Mo Jo plans to kill Carmella’s Colombian cocaine family calling the hit that killed Angela a retaliation for Nicky’s drug trade.
Nicolas, Nicky’s father, is informed the DA is reopening the Banoa murder case. He has an ADA on the hook and confesses to the hit. Pauley and Vinny (who is already in jail) are his coconspirators. Nicolas is suffering from Alzheimer and his wife heart is getting weaker. After he is convicted, he planned to have Pauley and Vinny exonerated. However, Benny the Chicago Godfather tips off the FBI that Nathan, who has been arrested for prostitution in Las Vegas, is a person they should talk to.
Before the FBI can discredit Nicolas’ statements, he has Sal kills him and his wife. He makes a tape for Mo Jo explaining his plan and not to go after Sal’s killer. With his confession and Sal death, Nicky and Mo Jo should be in the clear. But Nicolas did not know about Nathan and the gun.
Mo Jo takes control of the family and has Pauley killed when he objects. He puts Chris, Carmella’s husband, in charge of the operations while he considers the actions other capos. Nicky comes out of the coma but is terribly shaken. Mo Jo set his bed on fire to get him to snap out of it. Mo Jo shows Nicky his father’s tape, they know who killed Sal and Nicky wants revenge.
They must figure out who tried to kill Nicky.
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Athina Paris was born and went to school in Mozambique. Living her formative years in the confines of strict convents and boarding schools, she escaped by dreaming of faraway exotic places, and it created a deep curiosity about life and people. Feeling the need to liberate her inquisitive mind from conformist restraints, she took refuge in libraries and bookstores, leading to an avid interest in reading, storytelling, and a lifelong obsession with the written word and books.At age fourteen, she joined her family: father, mother, and a younger brother in South Africa, where she continued her schooling. Now able to read English, she quickly went through most of the classics, discovered ancient civilizations, and became fascinated with various mythologies; a love she has kept to this day. After her father left the family, she went to college to study Interior Design, but the pull of her true talent took her into Creative Writing. She followed that with Scriptwriting.Raised in a culture where meddling is seen as ‘caring’, she became a spectator of human nature. Quiet and shy, she preferred recording conduct, rather than participate in what she calls ‘familial mass hysteria’, building a treasure-trove of relationship observations from which she eventually drew backgrounds for the characters in her novels.Her epic romantic work takes her characters on voyages of self-discovery while dealing with catastrophic love lives and an imperfect world. Her first novel Love & Madness, layered and complex, is the story of a family tested by selfish ambition, misplaced passions, and an exploration of the recesses of the human psyche.Knight Kisses tells the story of a young woman thrust into a life with a scoundrel of a father she never knew after her mother’s death from cancer. Gabrielle must deal with loss and mistrust and turns to keeping secrets, the only thing she knows how to do.Her third novel, shifts focus from heartbreak to empowerment. Dani, the heroine of When Dani Smiled, is smart and self-assured, desires to be a fashion designer, and is blessed with a beauty that can turn any man’s will into putty. Ironically, it’s not her looks or designing ability but computer programming skills that land her a job in the high-pressure world of fashion, where she is soon pursued by two men; the rich playboy and heir to the company, and her jealous high school suitor, who is determined to possess her.Athina has recently vacated the position of high school teacher, where she polished her skills to concentrate on her professional goals of writing, editing and proofreading. She has joined Rock Hill Publishing LLC as Editor-in-Chief.