IN THE COMPANY OF KILLERS

A high schooler joins forces with her ex-crush-turned-enemy to avenge her family.

Behind all the glitz, glamour, and designer clothes of the wealthy elite of Scarsdale, New York, lie betrayals and deadly secrets that rising senior Tasha Nicastro has been shielded from—until the night her father and sister are brutally murdered during a party at their mansion. She’s shocked to be made the new boss of the Nicastro Mafia and to learn that since childhood she’s been groomed for the role. Tasha must decide if she has what it takes to run the state’s most powerful crime family—and track down the traitorous mob boss who killed her loved ones. Leo Danesi has avoided his mob ties for as long as he can, but he’s finally forced to reckon with his family’s past and future, as well as his feelings for Tasha, when his mom accepts a surprising invitation and he ends up at the Nicastros’ party. At times, the weak and unclear motivations behind the complicated decisions made by some of the characters, who are largely cued Italian American, distracts from the action-packed drama. But the story, told in Tasha’s and Leo’s alternating first-person perspectives, brings the characters to life through distinct voices that together paint a picture of a violent and sinister underworld of organized crime.

A fast-paced and unpredictable mafia page-turner with an enemies-to-lovers duo hot on the case.