Chapter 1.

Romantic book? Easy! Normal situation: Boy meets girl. And the rest is history, right?

Well,

Boy: Carl Giovanni

Girl: Anna Lago

Anna may or may not be just a mixed race girl from Africa whose hard work lands her in a prestigious Ivy league in the USA.

Carl may or may not be next in line to be the Don or head of the Giovanni family, a leading Italian-American criminal society (also known as the Mafia) in the country.

Romance in Mafia founded partly in Africa??

I can neither confirm nor deny it...