🎄Once Upon a Holiday Market🎄 Dec 14th
Friday, December 12 · 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Flutter Romance Bookstore
Ticker Price Includes 1 Seat and 1 Copy of Fallen
Step into the world of danger, desire, and devotion as we celebrate Ashley Warren’s brand-new mafia-romance release!
Join the family for an evening of cocktails, chaos, and charm — where books, bullets (of espresso), and bold hearts collide.
The Night’s Agenda
7:00 – 7:15 | Welcome & Family Introductions
Arrive dressed in your noir holiday best (black, red, metallic).
Grab your mafia-role sticker — Capo, Consigliere, Enforcer, or Heir — and meet your crew.
7:15 – 7:35 | “Cover Stories” Icebreaker
Draw a secret identity or signature move (getaway driver, clean-up crew, hacker, forger…) and mingle to find your “partners-in-crime.”
7:35 – 8:00 | Trope Bingo: Family Business Edition
Cross off iconic mafia-romance tropes — enemies to lovers, blood oath, forbidden love, betrayal kiss.
Winners earn prizes, loyalty points, and bragging rights.
8:00 – 8:35 | Fireside Chat & Q&A with Ashley Warren
Settle in for a behind-the-scenes chat with Ashley about her newest release — inspiration, characters, and all things dark-romance.
Audience Q&A + book signing to follow.
8:35 – 8:55 | Photos, Mingling & Shopping
Snap a pic at the Evidence Wall photo booth, leave your 2026 reading goal on the Omertà Oath Tree, and browse staff-pick mafia romances.
8:55 – 9:00 | Final Raffle & Farewell Toast
Raise your mocktail “to family, loyalty, and happily ever afters.
About the Book:
When Zara Kavanagh and Enzo Marchetti shared one reckless, unforgettable night two years ago, they never imagined it would become the spark that ignited a war between two rival crime families. Now, they’ve been pushed into a strategic marriage built on power instead of trust, and Zara finds herself torn between the life she escaped and the man she never truly forgot.
Enzo is cold, calculating, and unapologetically ruthless. But the more time they spend together, the more Zara begins to see past the armor he wears for the world. With her father’s betrayal still casting long shadows and old enemies beginning to resurface, their unlikely partnership starts to look a lot like something real. And with a chemistry that burns hotter than either of them expected, giving in to desire might be the easy part. Especially when the truth they uncover could change everything.
An obsessive antihero, a forced marriage, and the second chance neither of them saw coming—Fallen is a dark, steamy mafia romance where betrayal, obsession, and forbidden love collide.
