Opening Prologue — “Project Onion”

NARRATIVE EXCERPT • STORY SAMPLE

This prologue introduces Untitled / “Project Onion”, a novel in progress that weaves together multigenerational family secrets, organized crime, and the quiet burden of inherited choices.

Set in 1940s Rome, it opens with Ares Longo — a newly aged young man haunted by war, power, and a growing sense of inevitability. The scene is brief and atmospheric, anchoring readers in a world where violence simmers beneath tradition, and where legacy is already in motion before the story officially begins.Though the prologue stands alone as a quiet moment, it plants key thematic roots that echo throughout the novel’s dual timelines.

Project Onion follows Ares’s granddaughter, Luisa, an FBI agent in 2026, as she unravels the long shadow of her family’s past—layer by layer, like the onion referenced in its dev title.

This sample reflects the novel’s blend of subtle suspense, familial intensity, and bone-chilling, unspoken civil tension.