Condemned: To Love By Siobhan Davis

Forbidden love, secret pregnancy, second chances, and the violent power struggles of the Italian mob.

The following piece captures the internal tension between Sierra’s desperate need for safety and Bennett’s transformation from the boy she once knew into a lethal mafia Don. The Firefly and the Don Condemned to Love by Siobhan Davis

The man standing before me wasn't the boy who used to call me "Firefly." Bennett Mazzone had been my sister’s boyfriend, the one person who looked at me and saw something worth protecting when the rest of the world saw a ghost. But that boy had died ten years ago, replaced by a cold, calculating killer with hands stained by the very blood he was sworn to protect me from. Forbidden love, secret pregnancy, second chances, and the

"You shouldn't have come back, Sierra," he said, his voice a gravelly warning that vibrated in my chest. But that boy had died ten years ago,