The Control Room - Part 1

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 clean British mafia romance with U.S AND U.K Italians and a unique soft sci-fi story about rivalry and revenge with the use of advanced technology and time travel into multidimensional universes.

The novel has been described as Romeo and Juliet meets the Matrix and Total Recall, and a page-turning imaginative story about love in unexpected places, survival, and second chances.

The original longer version has been published on August 2026 with a different opening chapter. It has gone from a 60k novel, to a 90k novel, which is how it should have remained.

The full novel is available to purchase as an omnibus for those who would prefer not to read it in two parts.

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She was supposed to be nothing more than the daughter of my enemy, innocent, unsuspecting, and easy to bait...

I’m Aria, a nurse with a predictable life, a future built on routine and good intentions. That was until Caine Savino entered my life like a breeze before the storm, carrying secrets too dark to hide. I knew from the moment we met that he was different, that he was damaged. Yet every instinct that should have screamed at me to run, whispered at me to stay.

I should fear him, despise him. Except I’m drawn to him in a way that feels inevitable. It's as if our fates have been entwined long before we met. There's also a force pulling all the strings, something unnatural and dictating. It’s taking us to a future neither of us would have chosen.

He came to make me suffer, but I want to end his pain. I don’t know if caring about him will save us, or destroy what we have left to lose.

I’m Caine Savino. My life ended the day my parents were killed by the Travinnis. Every moment since then has been for retribution. But this girl, Aria, is the fracture in my armour that I was convinced could never break. The more I resist, the deeper she sinks into parts of me I thought were long dead.

She should fear me. She should hate me. Except she looks at me as though I’m worth saving, even as something dark pulls us towards a fate neither of us can understand.

I came to make her suffer, but she seems to want to ease my pain. I don’t know if caring about her back will save us, or burn down my world all over again.

The Control Room is a soft sci-fi romantic thriller.