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Banished at Dad's Wake, So I Came Back to Run the Boardwalk

The Banished Mob Princess Runs the Boardwalk

A serialized novel · 24 chapters published · 3 free to read

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Ten years after her uncle and the Atlantic City Table put her out at her father's wake, Nicki Taddeo walks into the family club, sits in her dead father's chair and asks the neutral chair for his roof, not knowing he has held her under his hand for a decade.

Tropes & themes: contemporary · exile · female lead · dark romance · dark mafia · forced proximity · revenge · romance · family drama · possessive love · abandoned & returned · steamy · mafia underworld

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1: Dom's Night (free)
  2. Chapter 2: Roof Rules (free)
  3. Chapter 3: The Terrace (free)
  4. Chapter 4: Shabbat (free with an account)
  5. Chapter 5: The Back Seat (free with an account)
  6. Chapter 6: Rolling Chair (free with an account)
  7. Chapter 7: Steam (locked)
  8. Chapter 8: Sunday Lunch (locked)
  9. Chapter 9: The Tie (locked)
  10. Chapter 10: The Bullet (locked)
  11. Chapter 11: Three A.M. (locked)
  12. Chapter 12: The Fourth (locked)
  13. Chapter 13: The Lifeguard Stand (locked)
  14. Chapter 14: The Roof Pool (locked)
  15. Chapter 15: Rugelach (locked)
  16. Chapter 16: The Pier (locked)
  17. Chapter 17: The Mirror (locked)
  18. Chapter 18: Quirke's (locked)
  19. Chapter 19: The Dune House (locked)
  20. Chapter 20: The Assumption (locked)
  21. Chapter 21: Flour (locked)
  22. Chapter 22: The Closing (locked)
  23. Chapter 23: Her Father's Bed (locked)
  24. Chapter 24: First Sunday (locked)

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