Deep is Nick’s story. When I started the Paganos, I didn’t anticipate Nick becoming a lead, but he got my muse’s attention at the end of Touch, Book Two, and then really emerged in the last part of Rooted, Book Three. Because Nick is a leader of the Pagano Brothers organization, their head enforcer, his book is…

Rooted is Carmen’s story. It begins where the epilogue of Touch ends. Rosa is graduating college, and Carmen takes her to Paris for the summer. There, Carmen meets Theo, and they embark on what begins as a summer fling. Though Rooted begins with a prologue, I’m sharing the first full chapter as a teaser. Rooted will be…