“PROJECT ONION”
TIME-WARP • MOB-MYSTERY • CRIME-FIC
For FBI Agent Luisa Amato, the day her two worlds met would never come... until it did; when a new assignment pulls her back to her roots in NYC, Luisa is thrust into the delicate tension between law enforcement and local organized crime.
As her investigation unfolds, time weaves a complex narrative: her grandfather's unassuming first steps into the mob, her parents' fateful crossing of paths, and the choices that set her family on an irreversible course.
Amid the search for truth, generational and universal questions emerge:
what do we choose to do next, and why?
Project Onion” / “P.O.” / Untitled is currently my main WIP; draft revisions are expected to be completed in mid-summer 2025, and I am seeking representation.

PROLOGUE:
THEMES
At its core, “P.O.” explores choice and consequence, peeling back layers of the past to reveal how even the smallest, best-intended decisions ripple across time. Set against the backdrop of organized crime vs.law enforcement, the piece examines the tension between loyalty and justice, family and identity, and the uneasy balance between duty and personal history.
Luisa, a 28-year-old FBI agent, straddles two worlds: the legacy of her mob-connected family and the rigid expectations of federal law enforcement. Her investigation into a modern-day corruption case forces her to confront a plethora of other buried mysteries, not to exclude her mother’s unsolved murder from over a decade ago. The deeper she digs, the more the lines blur between right and wrong, truth and omission (and assumption), law and criminality.
The narrative is shaped by nonlinear storytelling, weaving together two different timelines, sort of like parallel narratives— the past, which depicts everything from Luisa’s familial mob origins to coveted childhood vacations, and the present, where Luisa is unraveling decades’ worth of secrets, loyalties, and betrayals, and navigating the fine line between keeping her alias safe, and her family alive.

SLOW-BURNING CONTEXT:
Stylistically, Project Onion incorporates foreign language slang and cultural nuances, grounding the story in an authentic sense of heritage. The world is one of moral grayness—where alliances shift, corruption isn’t always where it seems, and justice isn’t always clean.
The non-linear timeline allows for a choose-your-own-adventure style of reading, and can be executed in a few different ways, such as Through-and-through, or chronologically.
This piece will also feature a listen-along soundtrack with niche artists and a custom mix.
