Mia Farone: Lost and Turned Out (Volume 1)

Set in 1950s Tivoli, Italy up until contemporary Midwestern era; Mia Farone the daughter of Italian and African-American parents is uprooted from her native Tivoli and faced with the challenges of growing up in a foreign land (U.S.); naïve and fallen prey to the exploits of the streets of St. Louis and a hustler ten years her senior she develops a fondness for their attorney where cat and mouse theatrics ensue, beginning a whirlwind tale of an intimate, forbidden romance and a betrayal that beckons revenge. When her father is killed after an affair with the wife of beloved mob boss Carmine Lucci, she faces the challenges of growing up in urban Midwestern St. Louis, Missouri. Taking companionship and marriage with a much older and street wiser hustler named Bri, she becomes emotionally distressed from the abuses landing her in the comforts of their mutual legal advisor Ty who helps them navigate their businesses through the red tape of government bureaucracy. This leads to Cold War Era-like tensions between the three. Mia Farone traces the steps of the story of a pandora’s box of forbidden and the Cold-War Era-like tensions that ensue between the three.