i. the start of it all

Circa 1945, the daughter of the Godfather to all is wed on this day. Wine. Friends. Laughter. Photos. An Italian wedding. A friend of a friend attends, her name is Maria-Grazia. She is a petite girl, has style, but there's a twist. She is the daughter of a rival patriarch to the Godfather. Vito, the Godfather, doesn't know of her attendance or her relations to Emilio Barzini.
She meets the youngest son of the Corleone family, Michael. They engage in a friendship which later evolves to a forbidden love. Will the rival families make peace or will they commence in a bloody war?

Original characters and some script quotations from "The Godfather" are NOT mine. The cover art is NOT mine.