Juliet + Juliette: Love in Mafia Land

Avery Sandoval & Tara Sandoval · Dual narration · 6 hrs

Lethal · Strange · Obsessive

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.

Leonor was made to disappear people. Forged before she was old enough to grieve, shaped by an uncle whose reach stretches further than his nine-hundred-and-twelve-square-foot exile would suggest. She buries emotion. She does not ask questions. Until the death note arrives with a name she cannot touch, and a war she cannot see the edges of pulls her under. At the center of it: Juliet and Juliette. Heirs to houses that have bled each other for generations, bound by a sapphic love secret enough to unravel every alliance Mafia Land has paid for in bodies. When their story ends, the power vacuum opens. Leonor is exactly where she needs to be, not to fill it, but to make sure no one else does either.

Blunder beetles spin silk for exactly one hour a night and no one has ever seen one eat. Fig bubbles brewed from a mushroom that offers visions of the future at the cost of your sanity.

House attendants who are smarter than anyone gives them credit for. This is that world.

Performed in alternating voices by Avery Sandoval and Tara Sandoval, Juliet + Juliette is a genre-defying fever dream, dark sapphic romance, mafia noir, and mythic strange fiction pressed into six hours of listening that does not flinch. Desire and violence breathe side by side here. Every alliance is a blade. Every love is a liability. And the only currency that matters is who you're still willing to protect when there's no one left to protect you back.

Love won't save you in Mafia Land. But it will make you the most dangerous thing in the room.

For readers who came for The Godfather's ruthless architecture and stayed for Circe's mythic female rage, and have been waiting for something queer, strange, lethal, and entirely its own.