OUTLINE: LOVE OR REVENGEGENRE: Mafia romanceTroupes: Revenge, forbidden love, betrayal.Theme: love, betrayal revenge SETTING:MODERN NEW YORK CITYBlurbLuca del Toro, a loyal cartel worker until he falls in love with Isabella Hernandez, a talented painter who lit up his entire world.But love turns deadly when a favour ends in betrayal, the death of his best friend, a setup that runs deeper than expected.As all secrets are revealed and war ensues, Luca must choose between love or revenge before everything burns down.In the end, nothing is left untouched, neither by bullets or lies or even love.INCITING INCIDENT Luca, an enforcer for the powerful Lord Grenzo, is assigned to a mission to survey a potential leak.During his mission, he meets Isabella Hernandez, a painter who accidentally becomes the focus of Luca's attention on all fronts.Despite his instincts, he begins to fall for her. They share a quiet and oddly romantic moment that begins to change him.They start dating. Aware of his occupation, she tries to pull him towards the light.RISING ACTION Matteo, Isabella’s brother and a member of the Brimain cartel, finds out about the relationship between his sister and Luca.Enraged at first, he pretends to approve after much convincing but later orders a hit on Luca, which fails.Luca survives the attack and confronts Matteo after finding out he had a hand in it.Matteo pretends it was a mistake and apologises. Luca forgave him for Isabella’s sake.During a celebration of their 2-month anniversary and the forging of a new and strong relationship by her brother and Luca, she asks for a gift.The gift involved Luca helping Matteo close out a deal as he was out of town.The deal: a setup for a police raid. Luca barely escapes, but his best friend Gonzalo is killed.A quiet and secret burial for Gonzalo was held and marked the beginning of Luca's investigation.He slowly uncovers layers of the setup.Matteo planned it, and Isabella was aware.He confronts her. She is devastated as it was only supposed to scare him out of Mafia life.Their bond, though failed, doesn't break.Luca continues with his investigation, not satisfied with what he had gotten.Luca finds a mysterious message on Matteo's phone saying:If he lives, you die.After an anonymous tip that tilted his perspective from matteo to the possibility of another person working with him. a shadow tailed luca an older man dropping subtle hints that helped him on his path.This leads him to uncover the fact that Lord Grenzo orchestrated everything.Grenzo feared Luca was getting soft and believed he was a threat.Emotionally damaged by all this, he stumbles upon another dark secret.Isabella’s real dad enters the story,a former cartel rival exiled by Grenzo.He reveals that Isabella was stolen as punishment and given to Matteo to raise so her future could be controlled.CLIMAX Luca, emotionally unstable as he is betrayed by Grenzo and Matteo, decides to retaliate.He allies with Isabella’s father, and he reveals the identity of Matteo to Isabella.She is shattered. As the truth dawns on her, she realises that Matteo not only betrayed Luca but manipulated her entire life.Enraged and heartbroken, she confronts Matteo.In the moment, she kills him, not a planned murder but in the heat of fury and grief.The collapse of her old self.RESOLUTION The war between Luca and Grenzo comes to an end in an unspoken ceasefire.Cities destroyed. Friends buried. The Brimain cartel shattered beyond repair. So is everything that Luca ever believed in.Isabella, after killing the man she always saw as her brother, her shield, she retreated inwards.She is quiet, not broken but changed. The warmth in her art is gone. Her painting growing darker.Everybody scarred.Luca no longer dreamt of power. He no longer belongs to the dark world. He had walked away from it.Their love story doesn't end in fairytale but in the ruins of truth.They live together, surviving.EPILOGUE They tried to break us with betrayal, but all they did was show us who we really were.