The Girl She Used to Be (Hardcover)
by David Cristofano
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Overview
When Melody Grace McCartney was six years old, she and her parents witnessed an act of violence so brutal that it changed their lives forever. The federal government lured them into the Witness Protection Program with the promise of safety, and they went gratefully. But the program took Melody's name, her home, her innocence, and, ultimately, her family. She's been May Adams, Karen Smith, Anne Johnson, and countless others--everyone but the one person she longs to be: herself. So when the feds spirit her off to begin yet another new life in another town, she's stunned when a man confronts her and calls her by her real name. Jonathan Bovaro, the mafioso sent to hunt her down, knows her, the real her, and it's a dangerous thrill that Melody can't resist. He's insistent that she's just a pawn in the government's war against the Bovaro family. But can she trust her life and her identity to this vicious stranger whose acts of violence are legendary?
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- ISBN-13: 9780446582223
- ISBN-10: 0446582220
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- Date: March 2009
- Page Count: 241
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- Reviewed in: Publishers Weekly, page 96.
- Review Date: 2009-01-26
- Reviewer: Staff
Cristofano’s intense, romantic debut revolves around the Federal Witness Protection Program. When Melody Grace McCartney is six, she and her family witness mobster Tony Bovaro gut Jimmy “the Rat” Fratello at a restaurant in New York’s Little Italy. They go into WITSEC in exchange for testifying against Bovaro. Eight years later, due to a foolish slip on Melody’s part, a Bovaro goon finds her parents and kills them, but WITSEC whisks Melody to safety. By the time she’s an adult, Melody has gone through a numbing parade of eight identities, the latest as a math teacher. She’s about to enter yet another new life when she meets John Bovaro (aka Jonathan), who at age 10 also saw his father slicing up Jimmy. Jonathan, who’s been tracking Melody’s movements ever since and is obsessed with making things right, persuades her to run off with him. Despite Melody’s questionable attraction to Jonathan, Cristofano’s mad love scenario sizzles like garlic in hot olive oil. (Mar.)
- ISBN-13: 9780446582223
- ISBN-10: 0446582220
- Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
- Date: March 2009
- Page Count: 241








