1099: Blood of the Lupa

From the volcanic heart of Norman Sicily to the blood-soaked tenement streets of Brooklyn, the Luna Strega trilogy is an epic saga spanning a thousand years of blood, magic, and survival.The air smells of ash and wolf hair and old stone. The moon bleeds crimson above Mongibello. And in a cave carved into the mountain's living rock, a woman makes a pact that will echo across a thousand years.The Di Luna Strega women are marked at birth - a crescent burned into flesh beneath a bleeding moon, binding each daughter to an ancient pact sealed on the slopes of Mongibello. They are healers and warriors, immigrants and matriarchs, witches in a world that fears what it cannot name. When the lunar eclipse comes - and it always comes - the mark awakens, the blood surges, and the Lupa demands her due.It begins in 1099, when Norman steel set Sicily ablaze and a young healer climbed a burning mountain to bargain with something older than the Church, older than Rome, older than memory itself. The price was blood. The gift was survival. The mark has passed from mother to daughter ever since - through the Inquisition and the famines, through the great wave of immigration that swept a million Sicilian souls from their ancient island to the teeming streets of Brooklyn.Rooted in the living traditions of Sicilian folk magic - the cimaruta, the malocchio, the stregoneria passed down through generations - the Luna Strega trilogy weaves historical epic with supernatural mystery, tracing one bloodline's extraordinary journey across a thousand years of conquest, immigration, and survival.Where the Black Hand ruled through terror, where La Cosa Nostra was forging its iron grip on America, where the Mafia's shadow fell over every Sicilian immigrant who dared to dream - the Di Luna Strega women stood at the crossroads of ancient power and modern darkness. Their magic older than any crime family. Their bloodline stronger than any oath of silence.But the pact has a price. If the bloodline breaks - if the mark is lost, the knowledge forgotten, the crescent allowed to fade - the Lupa does not simply withdraw her gift. She collects. Every daughter who ever carried the mark. Every century of borrowed power. The debt falls due, and it falls all at once.The blood must survive. It has no other choice.Three books. One bloodline. A thousand years of reckoning.Some marks cannot be hidden. Some pacts cannot be broken. Some blood will always find its way home.

Pages: 534, Paperback, Independently published