Reaching Stella

She's tried all in her ultimate power to forget about him. Her years have swung by; she's the shrewd business woman with a bistro franchise in her mother's name to help find her. The East Coast has joined hands in becoming Casper Sabatini's communal mob town.
She left New York for Toronto to escape the malice hold of Casper, the Capo dei capi she thought only known to her in South Italy.
Forever running from the past, caught in the crosshairs while on dire search for her estranged mother ... How will Angelina de Luca take on the mob in New York? This ex-political Posse of the Third World ... A South American drug lord who panels a ruthless syndicate?
Stella Valencia has been missing from her life since childhood. In her mind, lives the little green of a neighbor's yard where her mother's final tears bottled against the sliding glass; a hug she miraculously recalls.
Her chosen lover has been fettered for a situation she's not sure of. In his eyes; she's the last daughter of Mary Magdalene.
Will she pick up the pieces of the puzzle? Solve the dark mystery of her lover's case? Her faith could unhinge a door to her scorched past.

REVIEW
"Romp plot, enthralling, fascinating, dynamic, brings themes of love, terror, betrayal, suspense and romance, extremely hard to put down." (Online Book Club)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Originally from British Columbia, Pereira raised in Jamaica since knee-high. Author retakes pen as recited scripture, devout craft let alone since eye of a storm in Bermuda. A novel transpires following two decades living abroad in the Americas and finally settling in Canada.
Pereira's known background particularly native indigenous to the land of Cayman; West African, Scottish, British, Far East Asian. He enjoys a variety of sports, the outdoors, out-backs, parks, lakes, ponds and rivers which Canada are famous for. Along with playing soccer with his small family of two kids and wife.