HONORABLE MENTION FOR FICTION AT THE 2016 PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL AND NEW YORK BOOK FESTIVAL
A beautiful art professor is pulled back to her dangerous and seductive Italian roots to a past that she has been protected from knowing.
UCLA art professor Coco Rhodes knows little about her family's association with the ancient clandestine organization "The Allegiance." As a matter of fact, she has little memory of her parents, who died in tragic circumstances when she was only four years old. But a brutal attempt on her life and a birthday letter from her dead mother pull her into a swirl of danger and enigma that will force her to dig into her family’s dark past.
˃˃˃ A captivating contemporary thriller filled with mystical adventures in a world of mystery and paranormal experience.
Coco demands answers from her brother, a high-powered D.C. lawyer and member of the Allegiance. He guides her to her birthplace in Italy, insisting she'll find answers there. In Italy she meets the enigmatic Gabriel, a powerful warlock and son of a vampire, and the ethereal Prudence, keeper of the Allegiance. When a close friend is murdered, Coco's life takes another dark turn. With only a faded portrait torn from an old sketchbook and an unfinished painting by her mother, Coco unravels clues from her past, in the hope of saving her loved ones.
˃˃˃ Murder, mystery and suspense come together in an exciting paranormal novel that will grab you from the very first page.
A passionate and compelling adventure that crosses the boundaries of genre to create a fan, suspenseful and compulsively readable story that you just can't put down!