Maria was 'special,' but nobody really understood or cared until her
stugats
dropped during a fight with
Selena
- of all things, the daughter of the Montreal Irish West End Gang leader,
Dunie
Ryan
.
Suddenly, the usual rambunctious, fearless Maria faces uncertain mortal danger. Her family, caught off guard, desperately attempts to hide her intersexuality from the homophobic
West End Gang
, the Montreal
Sicilian
Mafia
, and their own far-reaching Calabrian
'Ndrangheta
Andy Giordani
, her mother, does everything and anything to support and understand Maria's struggles but Maria's powerful father,
Stefano
Giordani
, is unable to face her physical changes and emotional upheavals. Instead, he flies in Venezuelan bodyguard
Alessandro
Pesseck
and leaves for Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to join their formidable
famiglia
head,
Zio Leo Mangione, as he undertakes a massive
expansion of the
laundering business into South Carolina's
Hells Angels
territory.
Over the next few years, bodies keep dropping as collateral damage, but that's okay-so long as it's not Maria.
Italian Bodies of Change,
the second part of the
Italian Bones of Contentions
Pride Series, continues the Giordani saga as the famiglia fulfills its destiny within the French Canadian 'Ndrangheta - the Calabrian Mafia.