Gangster's Girl

"They shot my Dad at twenty-two minutes after ten AM on a Tuesday morning as he was collecting his mail in the lobby of tour home on Commercial Drive in East Vancouver." Thus begins Jessie's odyssey into the twisted and dangerous world of assassins, organized crime, and the shadowy men who want her beloved father dead. Jessie is the adopted daughter of a powerful mob boss and grew up around gangsters, but does she have what it takes to navigate that world and survive? Two weeks from earning her PhD in Psychology and armed with highly tuned skills on how to spot deception, Jessie sets out to follow a trail that she hopes will lead to the person who ordered the attempt on her father's life and who is sure to strike again until they are successful. She struggles to prove herself in a male dominated 'profession' and show the gangsters she grew up with that she is more than the little girl who used to do her homework with milk and cookies at the crew's hangout. At the same time she discovers little Allie; a parentless Foster child whose current circumstance parallels her own early life before her Dad rescued her from an abusive Foster home and adopted her into the Di Napoli Crime Family. Life for Jessie becomes more complex with each passing day, and when she faces off against a hit man sent to silence her, she realizes she is out of her depth and enlists the help of one of her Dad's most lethal gangsters. Together they follow the trail from East Vancouver, through Chinatown, Skid Row, and all the way to Hollywood before the final explosive climax. Through it all, Jessie is guided by the lessons her Dad taught her as she grew up; the strategies of Sun Tzu; the wisdom of remaining invisible; knowing when to release the savage 'junkyard dog' that lives in every gangster's heart; and most important of all - love is the glue that holds their lives together.