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The Lost Years Book 5 Easter's Lily Series
Finally thinking they are free from the mob, Max and Lilly settle down in a small town in Texas called Quinlan. Lilly's son, Diego Montiago Jr., is preparing for the day when he graduates high school so he can learn the ways of his uncle, and become the next kingpin of the Mexican Mafia. In this fifth book of the Easter's Lilly Series, this young adult spin-off finds Lilly doing everything in her power to make sure that does not happen. During his high school years, Junior falls into a crowd of misfits, just to fall in love with the quarterback's girlfriend. But this is no ordinary girl and their trials are no ordinary trials. Junior grows up quickly while the mob's ever-present arm is still squeezing the life out of him. Just when he thinks he has found what he is looking for, everything changes. With love and hate balancing delicately in the distance, life and death become suddenly all too real. As time begins to run out, Diego Montiago Jr. is forced to make a decision that will change his life forever.
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9781612962719
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Rachel S.
Apr 6, 2026
I have loved every book in the Easter’s Lilly series and The Lost Years is no exception. In Memoirs of a Mobster Diego Junior was the main character of the book and we were left wondering what happened in the years between the shooting at Max and Lilly’s new home and this book. Thankfully Mrs Serrano decided to tell us in The Lost Years, again it was from Jr’s point of view as a young teenager where he experienced love and heartache, killing, the cartel life as he knew it and fitting in at a new school where everyone called him Mafia Boy.
I really liked Jr he was pretty level-headed for a teenager boy, and for the life he had so far, he had quite a mixed up childhood due to his Mom Lilly falling in love with all of his uncles. He was a caring boy towards girls but when business needed sorting he would do it without hesitation. He was very similar to Max where it came to shooting someone he didn’t have a reaction time he just done it.
The relationship between Bri and Jr was blossoming well until she got sick and I felt so sad for them, at such a young age as well.
If you have liked the previous books in the Easter’s Lilly series you cannot miss this book, it fills in a lot of gaps.
Very well written as always and again I was completely hooked.
I really liked Jr he was pretty level-headed for a teenager boy, and for the life he had so far, he had quite a mixed up childhood due to his Mom Lilly falling in love with all of his uncles. He was a caring boy towards girls but when business needed sorting he would do it without hesitation. He was very similar to Max where it came to shooting someone he didn’t have a reaction time he just done it.
The relationship between Bri and Jr was blossoming well until she got sick and I felt so sad for them, at such a young age as well.
If you have liked the previous books in the Easter’s Lilly series you cannot miss this book, it fills in a lot of gaps.
Very well written as always and again I was completely hooked.