Marelwood Publishing: 11 books

Pietro and Isabella Rocca are living a marriage of convenience in 1928 Piemonte, 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. Isabella sends him away, to work in Torino...

From The Savino Sisters Mystery Series (Book 1). 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...

A collection of twelve short stories about givers and takers—the good, the bad, the self-centered and the disillusioned—from twisted tales about marriages gone sour and people caught up in problems they created or others created for them to glimpses into times past when immigrants struggled to...

Newly widowed Francesca Canelli is not your typical soccer mom but she’d do anything to help her teenage son Matt honor his dad's memory. Cash-strapped and still grieving, Francesca accepts a sexual proposition from the coach of Pegasi United who promises to secure Matt a starting position on his...

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. Step back in time to Prohibition and prostitution during the Roaring Twenties. Follow Giulietta Bracca's notorious rise...

Book 3 from the Savino Sisters Mystery Series. 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...

Free Danner was his name as a kid. Now 22, he’s just Danner and he really is free, after spending ten years in Juvy for what he considered an act of mercy. Danner’s determined to find the father who doesn't know he exists. Everybody's out to screw him, especially the big shot who hired him as...

Italy To Die For (Book 1). 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 Spezia. The owner Lorenzo,...

Book 2 in the Savino Sisters Mystery Series. 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....

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 Rose and Sal could agree on how to spend their retirement...

Subtle horror for Halloween. 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 a mysterious stranger who directs them to a lovely pensione in Florence....