Beautiful Promises: A Closed-Door Mafia Romance (Beauty from Ashes Prequel)

fate
/fāt/
what is meant to be, will be.
a cord that cannot be broken.

Makenna Taylor and Reid Landry are high school sweethearts. He was her first. Her only. They had life all planned out, right down to the white picket fence and 2.5 kids. Then Reid joined the Marines, and from that day forward, life as Makenna knew it would never be the same.
She thought she was just another girl with a part time job waiting tables while she worked her way through college. She thought she was living the fairytale on her way to her very own happily ever after. She thought Cal Suppato was just another man.

She was wrong.

Soon, she would learn that every family has secrets. Every stranger has a dark side. And love isn’t a simple four-letter word. The curtain is pulled back, and Makenna’s world begins to unravel, thread by thread, to reveal something darker—something she’d only heard about in the whispers of her grandmother’s living room. A world many know about but simply refuse to see.

*This is book one (more like a prequel) of a closed door romance series. It is not a love triangle, and there is NO CHEATING. This is the story of three people’s lives intertwined in the threads of fate and the timeless question that always remains unanswered: What if?