Juliet + Juliette = Love in Mafia Land

By J. S. Nathaniel

Some debts can only be paid in blood. Some loves can only be hidden for so long. And some worlds are built so beautifully corrupt, the only way out is to burn them down.

In Mafia Land, crowns are not inherited, they are taken, traded, and tattooed into the skin of those who survive long enough to wear them. Queens govern through fear. Assassins are forged before they are old enough to grieve. And love, that most reckless of currencies, is the one thing no one survives spending twice. Leonor has spent her life in service to the man who made her, her uncle, a chancellor whose reach stretches further than his modest nine-hundred-and-twelve-square-foot exile would suggest. She disappears bodies. She buries emotion. She does not ask questions. Until the orders change, and the name on the death note is his. But this war has more players than Leonor can see. Juliet and Juliette, heirs to houses that have been at each other's throats for generations, are already running out of time, bound by a secret sapphic love that could unravel every alliance Mafia Land has bled to hold together. When their story ends, the power vacuum opens. And Leonor is exactly where she needs to be. Not to fill it. To make sure no one else does either.

Rich with a world where blunder beetles spin silk for exactly one hour a night and no one has ever seen one eat, where fig bubbles are brewed from a mushroom that offers visions of the future at the cost of your sanity, where chancellors plot in exile and house attendants are smarter than anyone gives them credit for, Juliet + Juliette = Love in Mafia Land is a genre-defying fever dream of loyalty, betrayal, and what it truly means to deal in death when the only person left to protect is yourself.

For readers of The Godfather's ruthless power and Circe's mythic female rage, who have been waiting for a story that is queer, strange, lethal, and entirely its own.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1967522030
• ISBN13: 9781967522033
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: J.S. Nathaniel
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up