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In 1915 Italy, a teenaged girl believed she had conjured the perfect lie to protect herself. Even though she deserved the full weight of responsibility for her foolish recklessness, the lie deftly deflected all blame to her innocent, oblivious best friend, Fredo, who was in America and should have been out of harm's way. That's how it should have gone, but we all know no lie is ever perfect, and no one is ever out of harm's way. It took more than a century, but the lie-fueled vendetta her father declared reached its climax four thousand miles away in South Philadelphia, that city's Italian enclave and epicenter of the hullabaloo between the Valmontis and their mysterious enemy. Sonny's, a neighborhood Italian restaurant named for Fredo's son, John Sr., operated without incident for seventy-five years. After three generations of Valmontis sharing their family's recipes with their neighbors and guests, Sonny's transcended from an enduring family eatery to a battleground, and Fredo's grandson John Jr. became the key to his family's fate. Sonny's Vendetta offers an enticing mix of character-rich and humorous tales of intrigue, old world grudges, friendship, family, Sunday Gravy and meatballs. Join John Jr. as he comes home to find his world and family in shambles and joins forces with a well-connected uncle, an elderly family attorney, and a variety of lifelong friends to figure out what's going on, to recoup his legacy and to stay alive ... not necessarily in that order.

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Michael Attiani is a second generation Italian-American. Three of his grandparents were born in Italy, and one was born to recent Italian immigrants in the coal mining region of western Pennsylvania. If he tried, Michael could probably trace his Italian lineage back to Romulus and Remus, and possibly to Adam and Eve because Italians believe the Garden of Eden had to be somewhere in Italy because Italy is Heaven on Earth. His grandparents all ended up in the southeast corner of Pennsylvania, settled in Philadelphia, and stayed there for the remainder of their days. Michael was born and raised in this City of Brotherly Love. After attending local public schools, he ended up where most Italians do: Catholic school. He endured that excruciating form of purgatory from 8th grade through college graduation, shrewdly compacting an entire lifetime of Catholic obligation into the first twenty years of his life. Once he was paroled from academia, he spent three decades pursuing a career in commercial real estate and continues to do so today. Michael somehow convinced a beautiful woman to marry him and produce two sons. Then they added four dogs because two boys don't produce enough mayhem and mess on their own. In addition to his family and career, Michael enjoys spending as much time as possible with his friends, writing, drawing, skiing, traveling and doing pretty much anything with cars. As an enthusiastic member of the automotive community, he enjoys driving on racetracks, slaloming between orange cones in otherwise empty parking lots, and attending car events around the globe.Although most of his family stayed rooted in Philadelphia, Michael extricated his family from those familiar confines and settled a couple thousand miles west, in Idaho. They lingered there for nearly a dozen years until returning to Philadelphia, because there's no place like home, and truly, there is nowhere like Philadelphia. Learn more about Michael and his writing at www.sonnysvendetta.com.

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