La Donna

My second novel, La Donna: A Story of Destruction, is more serious than The Peasant Princess. Written in third-person omniscient point of view, perspectives alternate from focusing on protagonist Angela Fratelli to antagonist Donna/Tanya Fitzgerald to Angela's fiance Michael Johannsen. Angela, 25, is essentially perfect: a genius, beautiful, an heiress to a rather vast fortune...need I say more? Angela is perfect to the point of irritation, at least she was for her elder sister Antonia Fratelli, who ran away from home at the age of fourteen (sixteen years have passed since then) and was never heard from again. As perfect as Angela may be, her life still has a few rough edges, such as her parents dying in a car crash (the police suspect murder) and the police forbidding her from maintaining contact with younger brother Antonello just in case either of them are next. Donna - or "La Donna", as she calls herself - is a mob boss with a very powerful grudge against Angela; with a cold heart and fury constantly ignited in her eyes, Donna will stop at nothing to get her revenge, even if it means losing herself in the process. Even Michael, Angela's fiance, is hiding a few secrets, even though all he wants is to protect Angela from Donna and "Tanya Fitzgerald" - Donna's alias when she becomes Angela's "bodyguard" - even if it means losing his life.