Pietro and Isabella Rocca are living a marriage of convenience in 1928 Italy. He allows his wife to rule the household, the farm, and their young twins. Isabella thinks she rules Pietro too, until she discovers him in bed with the neighbor's wife. Is...
A sequel and partial parallel to Chicago's Headmistress, The Family Angel is about the Roaring Twenties, Prohibition, The Great Depression, and WWII, this historical novel stands alone as an Italian American saga. Follow the Americanization of the...
Newly widowed Francesca Canelli is not your typical soccer mom but she would do anything to help her 15-year-old son, Matt, a passionate soccer player determined to honor his dad's memory. Financially strapped and emotionally devastated, Francesca ac...
Subtle horror for Halloween. In this short story Lidia and Simon Drago are living their last hoorah, a European vacation financed by insurance money they received when their house burned down. On the night train from Paris to Florence they encounter ...
Chicago's Headmistress was shortlisted for the 2014 "Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project" and was also nominated for Best Historical Fiction at eFestival of Words. This novel about Prohibition and prostitution during the Roaring Twenties is a p...
This coming-of-age novel for adults over 18 is on the edgy side, as in dark humor with off-beat characters, some not-so-likable, others downright despicable. As for Danner, he's the ultimate bad boy readers will either love or hate or love to hate. F...
Rose Bianco has been working her entire married life in the St. Louis bakery her husband Sal inherited from his parents. Now Bianco’s is closing, the entire block destined for the headache ball to accommodate another tacky discount store. If only ...
Too much togetherness spells disaster for these thirty-something sisters vacationing in Italy. When glamorous Margo opts for a steamy romance in Florence, plain-Jane Ellen travels alone to their next destination, a charming hillside villa at La Spezi...
Thirty-something sisters Ellen and Margo Savino discover there’s more to Italy than the typical tourist destinations when they check out their family roots in the foothills of the Italian Alps, much to the dismay of their sassy grandmother Clarita....
What would it take for thirty-something sisters Ellen and Margo Savino to cut short their Italian holiday and return St. Louis? Their mother Toni's connection to the murder of Val Corrigan, that's what. It seems the widow Toni shared Val's affections...
During the height of The Great Depression in 1931 and due to unforeseen circumstances, Matt Pagano finds himself in charge of what was once Chicago's most innovative brothel. At 23 and with no leadership experience, Matt must depend on Ugo Sapone, th...