The Safety - Fischetti, P. E
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Guy Finelli as The Safety, a Super Hero on and off the Football Field, is Fabulous Fiction for the Fall season! The murder of Washington All-Pro Safety Sean Taylor in 2007 devastates Guy Finelli at the age of thirteen, dreaming to become a football athlete like Taylor. The Safety is a dramatic, soul-stirring look at a young athlete's attempt at stardom, as Guy Finelli tries to break free from his past mistakes and fulfill a family legacy of football greatness. Months of depression leads to Guy's involvement with pot-smoking friends, who then decide to fund their hard-partying ways by selling…mehr

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Guy Finelli as The Safety, a Super Hero on and off the Football Field, is Fabulous Fiction for the Fall season! The murder of Washington All-Pro Safety Sean Taylor in 2007 devastates Guy Finelli at the age of thirteen, dreaming to become a football athlete like Taylor. The Safety is a dramatic, soul-stirring look at a young athlete's attempt at stardom, as Guy Finelli tries to break free from his past mistakes and fulfill a family legacy of football greatness. Months of depression leads to Guy's involvement with pot-smoking friends, who then decide to fund their hard-partying ways by selling to area students. Calling themselves the Northeast Consortium, the group comes to rely unknowingly on a vicious Baltimore mobster known as "The Turk" for their supply. Despite his fall, Guy never entirely forgets his dream of one day playing football. With the help of family and a good friend, he makes the decision to leave drugs and dedicate himself to football. As he prepares for his return to the game he loves, Guy is confronted by the FBI to help dismantle the new flow of cocaine into the County schools. When "The Turk" discovers that Guy Finelli is the source to the FBI, he vows to make his life miserable. Can Guy Finelli out run his past drug world and tragedy in his life to become the greatest defensive player and champion in football history and help rebuild a community? The Safety takes you on a journey of the past, present and future world of hard hitting football and beyond.
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Miss Pretty PleaseBy: P. E. FischettiWhile celebrating her fifteenth birthday, Annie Finelli, a girl ahead of her age in smarts, talent, and maturity, again meets Russell Santucci, mid-twenties, talented pianist already amidst a mid-life crisis, and the attraction is near instantaneous. After just two short conversations, love blossoms-but can it be true, with such a startling age difference between them? Learning to trust their feelings are only half the battle; good thing they have supportive families.Miss Pretty Please is the last novel of a trilogy involving the Finellis and the Santuccis in upper class, suburban Maryland. Each of the books involves a story of athletic greatness and emotional growth within two supportive but unusually connected families.About the AuthorP. E. Fischetti was born in Washington, D.C., and raised in Kensington and Bethesda, Maryland. He currently lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife of thirty-four years, and together, they have a son and a daughter, both in their mid-twenties living in the D.C. area.Fischetti is the youngest of four brothers who all played sports growing up. He is still very athletic and enjoys watching sports and cheers for any D.C. area team.Fischetti has a B.A. in Criminology and a M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Maryland. He spent twenty years in counseling work and then twenty years running two different businesses.Fischetti has finished a fourth novel, which he plans to publish in 2022. He started writing full-time in 2011 after retiring and published his first novel, Big Train's Backyard, in 2013, followed by The Safety in 2015.