The Control Room - Part 1 : Speculative mafia romance. Set in UK.

He wants to make her pay. She wants to ease his pain. But an outer force wants something far more dangerous ... Aria Travinni has spent her life tending to others as a nurse, keeping her world small and predictable. But when strange symptoms begin to affect her life—like a pulse of power she can’t explain—she knows something unnatural is at play. The night she boards a train, her carefully ordered life detonates. The truth doesn’t just find her. It drags her somewhere she never could have imagined Caine Savino has lived for one purpose: revenge. Methodical and sharpened by grief, he boards the train ready to face the family who ended his. But the moment he crosses paths with the daughter of his enemy, his mission begins to unravel. She's one variable he never planned for, a weakness he finds himself unable to ignore. What follows is a series of events that neither of them can steer. Reality twists and logic fractures as something unseen begins to pull the strings, binding their fates and forcing them towards a future neither of them can outrun. As the lines between destiny and control blur, they must decide what is real and what is hidden. Because some forces don’t just change you. They claim you. And choosing love might destroy them both. Or give them a chance to finally live. The Control Room is a speculative thriller, described by readers as Romeo and Juliet meets the Matrix, that has a unique and imaginative story about love in unexpected places, survival, and second chances.