Having already escaped one scandal, however, she can hardly afford to be swept up in another.īesides, even if he were hers, everyone knows you don’t fall in love with a Made Man. Elena may be the Sweet Abelli on the outside, but she’s beginning to learn she has a taste for the darkness, for rough hands, cigarettes, and whiskey-colored eyes. Making her feel hotter than any future brother-in-law should. She doesn’t like the man or anything he stands for, though that doesn’t stop her heart from pattering like rain against glass when he’s near, nor the shiver that ghosts down her spine at the sound of his voice.Īnd he’s always near. After his and Elena’s first encounter ends with an accidental glare on her part, she realizes he’s just as rude as he is handsome. His reputation stretches far and wide and is darker than his black suits and ties. A Made Man, a boss, a cheat-even measured against mafia standards. In the murky waters of New York’s underworld, Elena’s sister is arranged to marry Nicolas Russo. They say first impressions are everything. Now, all she can see in the mirror’s reflection is blood staining her hands like crimson paint. She’s the favored daughter, the perfect mafia principessa. Nicknamed Sweet Abelli for her docile nature, Elena smiles on cue and has a charming response for everything. She’s a romantic at heart, living in the most unromantic of worlds. Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance, Mafia Romance
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My grandfather manned the desk, doing all the paperwork. She charmed them or she frightened them, and either way, they bought. My grandmother was always on the phone, selling. They had their own small insurance company, working out of their railroad apartment in Bay Ridge, catering primarily to other Russian immigrants. I grew up two blocks from my grandparents and saw them nearly every day. And certainly not my grandfather himself, the smiling watchman of my earliest memories, the quiet, black-eyed, slender man who held my hand as we crossed the avenues, who sat on a park bench reading his Russian newspaper while I chased pigeons and harassed sugar ants with broken twigs. Not my grandmother, who knew every folktale from the old country-most of them gruesome children devoured by wolves and beheaded by witches-but never spoke about the war in my hearing. Who told me? Not my father, who never shared secrets, or my mother, who shied away from mentioning the unpleasant, all things bloody, cancerous, or deformed. I don't remember anyone telling me-it was something I always seemed to know, the way I knew the Yankees wore pinstripes for home games and gray for the road. My grandfather, the knife fighter, killed two Germans before he was eighteen. So what's so unusual about Oscar? He knows when the hospice patients are going to die. But in the summer of 2007 Oscar made headlines around the world. Like most cats, he's partial to treats and catnip. At first glance Oscar doesn't seem special. Oscar the cat lives on the third floor of a nursing home in Rhode Island, USA. Dr Dosa's job is to respond to people's medical needs, treat them for their ailments and communicate with their famili. During her research for the book, Lo visited the GLBT Historical Society. 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It’s a task he’s never hesitated to complete…until he finds himself drawn to a woman who might yet prove the enemy’s most insidious weapon. Charged with protecting his people’s most vulnerable secrets, Dev is duty-bound to eliminate all threats. Dev Santos discovers her unconscious and battered, with no memory of who she is. Dench's was a more emotional portrayal, as was (Dame, natch) Eileen Atkins' in the 2010 PBS version. Hiller had more fun with the role of a wealthy royal, traveling with a hen-pecked companion and so above the rest of the shenanigans on the train that she barely expends the effort required to move her mouth when she speaks. It's a part that attracts dames, as in Dame Wendy Hiller and Dame Judi Dench. Andrew May makes his Guthrie debut as Poirot but local theater audiences may remember him in the tour of "War Horse," in which the Star Tribune pronounced his performance "gorgeous." A flashy Belgian with a huge, meticulously groomed mustache, the character attracts actors who enjoy going big, such as David Suchet (who played him in the 2010 PBS version and the "Poirot" series), Albert Finney (an Oscar nominee for his 1974 performance) and Kenneth Branagh, who starred in and directed the 2017 remake. In Christie's novels, vain Poirot always considers himself the most important character but he's right in this case, since he's the only one who interacts with everyone else. And virtually every role is juicy since, other than detective Hercule Poirot, most of the characters must make an indelible impression in just a couple of scenes. Virtually all the characters in the drama - which takes place in the 1930s on a ritzy, snowbound train and that was loosely inspired by the aftermath of the kidnapping of Minnesota native Charles Lindbergh's infant - are wealthy. 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