Question of Vendetta

College students Morgan and his girlfriend Emma plan to make love in her SUV. They're parked behind the bookstore when men in ski masks interrupt them. They drag Morgan out of the vehicle and beat him, showing no signs of stopping until Frankie drives up. The men leave quickly in the SUV taking Emma away from Morgan.

Frankie, who used to be a paramedic, takes the injured boyfriend home with him, because Morgan recognized the tattoo on a man's wrist and knows that man is a cop. 

Morgan now understands that Emma's father, who's rich and powerful, had him beaten up by crooked cops. Afraid that Emma's father wants him dead, he assumes another name. "Marty" works (and lives) at Frankie's Pizzeria with Frankie, his wife, Angela, and their daughter until tragedy strikes five years later.

Did the family's enemies from Italy seek revenge in the name of vendetta or was someone else behind the crimes committed? Will Morgan, aka Marty, come face to face with Emma or her father again and what will be the outcome of such a meeting?

Read the 36,000 word mystery/crime novella and find out.