The Boy Who Became Don

st fourteen, the overlooked son in a cr

Isabella, an outsider in our Irish world, sen

he Ghost" O' Connell, a legendary enforcer,

something unsettling in my mother: a forgotten energy, a br

nge intuition, I crept to my

, Isabella, and Connor, locked in a passionate emb

Bella," confessing he'd thought of her

d, was a liar. And Connor, the brother I was be

note, hidden in a Zippo lighter, detailing their e

ish fear of abandonment, I f

her believe he was simply

ing Connor the new Don, and secretly orde

claiming I was my father's true son, fo

y gang war, to secure a future for the woman he

rom a broken heart, did the full, terrible trut

f lies, forced to confront the devastating consequences of my s