The Scarlet Thread

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Snag number one is her difficult hero, Steven Falconi, son of a New York Mafiosi, who meets pretty, blond Angela Drummond, a Sussex doctor's daughter, in Palermo during the war. Angels gets pregnant by and married to Steven in short order, but then vanishes when she learns about her husband's violent stateside life. Imagining Angela to be the victim of a German bomb, Steven goes home to the ""family"" in New York and marries Clara, the overripe and insanely jealous daughter of a rival don.