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    "title": "In the Company of Killers",
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    "description": "Gossip Girl meets The Sopranos in this fast-paced drama about a teenage mafia heiress who would do anything to avenge her family, even join forces with her handsome enemy.\n\nInside the tony suburb of Scarsdale is New York\u2019s worst-kept secret: The mob runs everything, and the Nicastro family is at the center. Seventeen-year-old Tasha Nicastro lives a life of glitz and glamour, but she has no idea her family harbors a dark truth. \n\nTasha might look like your classic high school mean girl, but behind the designer clothes is a sharpshooter who knows how to bring anyone to their knees. The only person who has ever gotten under her skin is her former best friend, Leo Danesi, the youngest son of the Nicastro family\u2019s rivals. After Leo returns to New York older and more handsome, Tasha thinks he\u2019ll be the worst of her problems\u2014until the life she thought she knew takes a violent, shocking turn. When her father and beloved older sister are murdered before her eyes, Tasha learns the dark truth: Her family runs the most powerful Mafia branch in New York, and now she\u2019s set to inherit it all. \n\nTasha vows vengeance on the mysterious new mob behind the hit, but she can\u2019t do it alone. She needs someone who already knows the underground world to help track them down. And that person is none other than Leo, the heir to his own family\u2019s dangerous empire. \n\nBut Tasha is a Nicastro. She\u2019s been raised in the company of killers, and there\u2019s absolutely nothing she won\u2019t do to avenge her family. That is, if the enemy doesn\u2019t put her in gold chains first.",
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