Forthcoming from Nightgrave Publishing

Her Name, Written in Blood

By Brandon Burnside · Nightgrave Publishing

She crossed an ocean to make her name. New York answered in blood.

About the book

In 1923, twenty-three-year-old Lucia Bellandi leaves Canepina, Italy, for New York with her father’s savings sewn into her coat and a private dream of Broadway. The city offers possibility, but it also judges her accent, her surname, and her empty pockets. As Lucia earns her first real role, she falls for Mario, an Italian American ironworker and war veteran who must learn that loving her is not the same as deciding for her.

Lucia’s rising profile draws the attention of polished racketeer Carlo Vitale and his violent rival, Emilio Mancuso. Extortion, nightclub gunfire, police corruption, and a theater fire turn her success into leverage—and when Lucia’s name is written in another young actress’s blood, she refuses to let fear define what the Bellandi name will mean. Her fight for love, independence, and a future of her own opens a completed three-book family crime saga.

Author & copyright holder: Brandon Burnside
Publisher: Nightgrave Publishing
Status: Forthcoming from Nightgrave Publishing
Length: 105,000 words
Genre: Historical crime saga
Setting: Canepina & New York · 1923–1926

Release date and ordering information to be announced.