Black Angel

Magdalena is recovering from polio and her mother’s death while living in her grandparents’ meager flat in Little Italy, San Francisco. Mother would have said… a “Black Angel” had come to save them when the family move into an elegant home in a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles. Her father has bitterly accepted an offer from a crime Family to pay his medical bills. Magdalena’s teenage years are spent trying to please her morose father and protect her reckless sister. An olive-skinned beauty, Magdalena is bright, studious and forgives her father’s favoritism towards her fair-haired sister, who resembles “Mama.” What she cannot empathize with is her father’s self-hatred for rescuing their family from debt. How she deals with her father’s bitterness, her sister’s recklessness and the crime Family becomes Magdalena's Black Angel...

I wrote Black Angel after touring a Mediterranean villa in Montecito, California. The grand, old house spoke to me with a tale begging to be put on paper. This story, set from 1970 up to current times, fills two books, the second book is recently released with a synopsis below!

A persistent nightmare torments mob attorney Magdalena D'Alessandro as she plays dangerous games in the no-man's-land between the law and the crime family in Las Vegas. The heavyweights she encounters on both sides of the law, District Attorney Patrick Bruen and Family Boss Vittorio Brancaccio, are men you don't cross. She finds herself at odds with not one, but both of them. What if Bruen, her jealous paramour, discovers the deadly secret behind her nightmares? What if Brancaccio, her ruthless employer, orders her whacked? Can Magdalena save herself from both of them?

Black Angel Book Two plunges the reader into the vengeful worlds of organized crime, power, and family tumult.