Isbn: 9798195010850 - the waitress spoke in a rural korean dialect...then the mafia boss's father stood up in shock (5 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. THE WAITRESS SPOKE IN A RURAL KOREAN DIALECT.THEN THE MAFIA BOSS'S FATHER STOOD UP IN SHOCKNia Carter whispered seven words in a dying dialect to the wrong old man, and now she can't go back to the life she had before in this gripping debut from rising literary thriller voice Rowan Blackwell.Nia Carter, working under no alias because she never knew she needed one, is a woman who built herself from scratch - Korean language learned from love, not lineage; grief carried without answers; a quiet life in Seoul that was supposed to have no history. But a single moment in a private dining room changes everything. When she speaks a rural South Jeolla dialect to a trembling patriarch and watches him shatter, she discovers she isn't a stranger who wandered into a powerful family's orbit. She is the missing piece a criminal empire has spent forty years burying.In order to survive what she's uncovered, Nia must navigate a world where every door opened reveals another locked one - a mafia boss who investigated her before she ever knew he existed, a kidnapping that forces her hand, a gunshot that was never meant to miss, and documents that prove her entire origin was an architecture of deliberate erasure. Park Joon-Woo, cold-eyed and precisely dangerous, is either her greatest ally or the most sophisticated threat she's ever faced. And the line between those two things keeps moving.Yet despite every reason to walk away, Nia finds herself drawn deeper - not by romance, not by revenge, but by something more unsettling: the truth about who she actually is, where she actually comes from, and what she is willing to become once she finally knows.So, will the truth give Nia back everything she lost?Or prove that some things were never meant to be found? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. THE WAITRESS SPOKE IN A RURAL KOREAN DIALECT.THEN THE MAFIA BOSS'S FATHER STOOD UP IN SHOCKNia Carter whispered seven words in a dying dialect to the wrong old man, and now she can't go back to the life she had before in this gripping debut from rising literary thriller voice Rowan Blackwell.Nia Carter, working under no alias because she never knew she needed one, is a woman who built herself from scratch - Korean language learned from love, not lineage; grief carried without answers; a quiet life in Seoul that was supposed to have no history. But a single moment in a private dining room changes everything. When she speaks a rural South Jeolla dialect to a trembling patriarch and watches him shatter, she discovers she isn't a stranger who wandered into a powerful family's orbit. She is the missing piece a criminal empire has spent forty years burying.In order to survive what she's uncovered, Nia must navigate a world where every door opened reveals another locked one - a mafia boss who investigated her before she ever knew he existed, a kidnapping that forces her hand, a gunshot that was never meant to miss, and documents that prove her entire origin was an architecture of deliberate erasure. Park Joon-Woo, cold-eyed and precisely dangerous, is either her greatest ally or the most sophisticated threat she's ever faced. And the line between those two things keeps moving.Yet despite every reason to walk away, Nia finds herself drawn deeper - not by romance, not by revenge, but by something more unsettling: the truth about who she actually is, where she actually comes from, and what she is willing to become once she finally knows.So, will the truth give Nia back everything she lost?Or prove that some things were never meant to be found? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…