Post-war Los Angeles glitters with possibility and danger. Three men of the Licata family walk the same city on entirely different roads, bound by blood and by secrets neither has fully told the other.

Nick Licata has become what he always intended to become: the don of the Los Angeles crime family, charismatic and powerful and completely certain the ends justify the means. What it costs his wife, Josie, and their children is a calculation he has chosen not to make.

His nephew Joe wants nothing to do with any of it. A banker. A family man. An honest life built deliberately apart from Nick's shadow. But the shadow keeps finding him, and when blackmail and alcoholism arrive together, Joe must decide how much integrity a man can afford to keep.

Nick's son Carlo is trapped in Detroit, married into a crime family that views him as useful but never quite legitimate. He dreams of Havana, of the Lemonade Lounge, of a life that finally fits. What he finds in Cuba is glamor, revolution, and consequences he didn't calculate.

From the glittering nightclubs of 1950s Los Angeles to the revolution-torn streets of Havana, The Scent of Lemons, Part Three is a novel about power, loyalty, and what happens to a family when the sins of one generation become the inheritance of the next.

Based on a true story, The Scent of Lemons, Part 3: The Next Generation continues the story of The Scent of Lemons, Part 2: The Far West and The Scent of Lemons, Part 1: A Sicilian Journey.