The Girl She Used to Be
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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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David Cristofano. (2009). The Girl She Used to Be. Grand Central Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)David Cristofano. 2009. The Girl She Used to Be. Grand Central Publishing.
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Starred review from January 26, 2009
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.
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After 20 years in the Federal Witness Protection Program (WITSEC) and eight aliases, Melody Grace McCartney hardly knows who she is. On the run since she and her parents stumbled on a gruesome murder by mobster Tony Bovaro when she was six years old, Grace saw WITSECs promised protection fail her mother and father when they were killed 12 years later. Now she feigns personal danger to be relocated just because shes bored and wants a change. But before her new case officer can move her from suburban Maryland to rural Wisconsin, Tonys son, Jonathan, tracks her down to present an alternative: protection from his family and a life of more safety and freedom than she has ever known. While federal officials pressure her to stay in WITSEC and show her Jonathans violent side, her attraction to him grows, and she must decide a course for the rest of her life. This is a compulsively readable, skillfully constructed first novel with well-drawn characters and a plot that twists and turns to what seems the best possible conclusion, marking Cristofano as a writer to watch.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2009, American Library Association.)
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