EMPIRE OF EMPTY COFFINS
READING AGE 18+
When Jake Marino is framed for the murder of his family's underboss, every door slams shut. But closing a door creates shadows, and shadows are where he's always done his best work.
Jake is an enforcer in the Vitale crime family—smart enough to survive, not powerful enough to thrive. He's built his life on loyalty, efficiency, and the unspoken promise that if you do the job, you get the protection. Now that promise has been broken.
Someone powerful set him up. Finding them means walking into the sights of rival families, dirty cops, and forces that want him dead. The deeper he digs, the more he realizes the conspiracy reaches into places he can't touch—into the highest levels of the families, into the past, into his own history.
Every answer breeds new questions. Every alliance crumbles. And with each chapter, Jake discovers the conspiracy isn't about framing him for a murder—it's about starting a war. To survive, he'll have to become something he never wanted to be.
But becoming that thing... it might cost him everything that makes survival worth it.
Unfold
The Boardwalk was a lie dressed up as a promise.
It stretched along the waterfront like a glittering scar, a strip of bars and clubs and restaurants that catered to the city's elite. The neon lights reflected off the wet pavement, turning the night into a carnival of color. The rich came here to play, the powerful came here t……
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