She Lived in Her Sister's Shadow — Until the Mafia Boss Chose Her in Front of Everyone

The deal was made with Chiara. Everyone knew it — it had been announced at the Sunday table three months earlier. Then the man walked in, and Livia Caruso looked at her other daughter and said "Gia will go. Chiara has her studies." Gia doesn't study. She has opened her dead father's cigar shop at six every morning since she was fourteen, and nobody in that room remembered either thing. What none of them know is that the contract never had Chiara's name on it. Corrado Amato wrote GIA CARUSO by hand, in May, and let the whole family perform a sacrifice that was never going to happen — because he wanted to see how long that house would take to give itself away.