The Wolf And Fox

An Italian corporal. A French Resistance courier. A locked room and a door he chose not to open.Occupied France, October 1942. Isabelle Renard has been carrying intelligence between Marseille and Toulon for two years when an Italian corporal stops her truck at a checkpoint. He finds the false bottom of her case. He finds the documents she has been protecting with her life.He doesn't hand her over.He locks her in a requisitioned hotel room in the Var and files reports that say nothing. For eleven months he interrogates her without interrogating her. For eleven months she gives him nothing, and he gives her nothing, and they learn each other across a chair and a window and a door that is never quite the line either of them claimed it would be.Then the war ends in Italy. The Germans come. The door is no longer a wall. And the man who held her captive walks through it with one sentence: Come with me.What follows is two years on the coast road. Sabotage runs and rail junctions. A French network that doesn't trust him and a man named Bauer who is hunting both of them. A choice neither of them planned and neither of them can take back. And in Palermo, a Sicilian uncle who has been waiting two decades for his nephew to come home and make the introduction that will build a dynasty in New York.Matteo Conti was sent to occupy France. He came back occupied by her. And the woman he brings home to Palermo isn't the woman his uncle planned for, isn't the woman his mother prayed for, isn't the woman the family will know how to receive.She is the woman who carried eleven addresses against her chest for twenty-three months and never gave them up.She is the one who started the dynasty.

Pages: 362, Paperback, Independently published