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Tampa Italiano

Natalie Harrow has spent forty-eight years wondering who gave her their eyes, their hands, and the blank place on her birth certificate. When a free ancestry test from the Tampa Italiano Language & Heritage Center leads her to family in Canepina, Italy, the answer seems almost too beautiful: open arms, old photographs, and a village ready to welcome her home.

But the reunion has been staged for an audience Natalie cannot see. Behind Tampa Italiano’s heritage trips and HOME AT LAST success stories is a network that understands how to turn bloodlines, loneliness, and the promise of belonging into a trap. In Canepina, family is forever—and leaving may be impossible.

Nightgrave editorial

A transatlantic folk-horror novel where ancestry becomes recruitment, hospitality becomes ritual, and the search for family opens the door to something that has been waiting for generations.

Author
Brandon Burnside
Publisher
Nightgrave Publishing
Imprint
Nightgrave Originals
Status
Available now
Genre
Folk horror · Cult horror · Dark suspense
Setting
Tampa, Florida · Canepina, Italy
Length
85,948 words
ISBN
979-8172671845

When home is the trap.

Tampa Italiano turns a modern search for heritage into a dark story about the institutions that collect our most personal information and the families willing to weaponize the desire to belong. The Nightgrave Originals edition is available now on Amazon.

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