Blood Vows on Bloomfield Avenue

At her father’s funeral in St. Lucy’s Church, Marisa Vitale discovers the truth hidden inside his coffin: a battered black ledger, tucked into the lining of his burial suit. Moments later, she finds a bomb wired beneath the hearse, already counting down. What begins as a funeral becomes a war for Bloomfield Avenue. Peter Caruso, her powerful fiancé, plans to use their marriage as a clean public mask for a violent takeover of the Vitale family. To stop him, Marisa must follow her father’s ledger through rain-soaked streets, funeral homes, hospital corridors, old chapels, and a final motorcade where every alliance has a price. Her only fragile ally is Rocco Ferri, a man bound to her family by an old blood vow. Once an expert in explosives and street warfare, Rocco has spent years trying to bury that life—until Peter turns his own family into leverage. Forced back into the violence he escaped, Rocco must protect Marisa while racing to save Celia Ferri from Peter’s control. As the ledger connects to missing account pages and toxicology files from Clara Maass Medical Center, Marisa uncovers the machinery behind her father’s death and Peter’s attempted conquest. But exposing the truth is only the beginning. To survive, she must decide whether to inherit her father’s world—or break it open and build a new order on Bloomfield Avenue.