Twelve Black Roses
(2026)(Book 12 in the Blood Ties: Rise of the Mafia series)
A novel by Chris Thorndycroft
New York, 1922. Twelve men. Twelve death sentences.
The Morello family is running out of allies. And time is running out for everyone.
When Salvatore D’Aquila, capo dei capi of the American Mafia, puts low-level enforcer Frankie Valvo on his hit list, Frankie finds himself caught in a deadly struggle between the most powerful men in the underworld. To survive, he’ll have to navigate a world of shifting loyalties, bitter rivalries, and blood-soaked ambition. But in a game where everyone is expendable, will he remain a pawn, or become a player?
With the help of Nicola Gentile, the legendary Sicilian peacemaker, Frankie embarks on a desperate mission from New York to Cleveland and, ultimately, Sicily, seeking the alliances that might save the Morello leadership from annihilation. But the stakes are personal. To save himself, he must save his bosses.
Twelve Black Roses is a 19,000-word novella and the final instalment in Blood Ties: Rise of the Mafia, a sweeping saga chronicling the birth of the American Mafia in the early twentieth century.
Genre: Mystery
The Morello family is running out of allies. And time is running out for everyone.
When Salvatore D’Aquila, capo dei capi of the American Mafia, puts low-level enforcer Frankie Valvo on his hit list, Frankie finds himself caught in a deadly struggle between the most powerful men in the underworld. To survive, he’ll have to navigate a world of shifting loyalties, bitter rivalries, and blood-soaked ambition. But in a game where everyone is expendable, will he remain a pawn, or become a player?
With the help of Nicola Gentile, the legendary Sicilian peacemaker, Frankie embarks on a desperate mission from New York to Cleveland and, ultimately, Sicily, seeking the alliances that might save the Morello leadership from annihilation. But the stakes are personal. To save himself, he must save his bosses.
Twelve Black Roses is a 19,000-word novella and the final instalment in Blood Ties: Rise of the Mafia, a sweeping saga chronicling the birth of the American Mafia in the early twentieth century.
Genre: Mystery