From the Inside Flap
THE DON'S DAUGHTER...
Veronica stood staring at the empty fireplace. "Do you have children?"
Toni paused before answering. Neil told her to be nice. Was it nice to mention a son to a woman who'd just lost hers? Probably not, but ignoring the question was definitely rude. "One. A boy."
Veronica Aiello Lipari had reached out to Toni with words. And right now she was probably wondering if that had been a mistake. Everyone move the woman made seemed calculated. Finally, she spoke again. "A boy. How old?"
"Fifteen going on twenty-five. His name's Ethan and he cooks a helluva pasta 'ncaciata."
"My son always wanted to cook." The faintest tremor marred her voice. "But my father . . . said cooking is for girls and sissies. At home he at a burrito or a hot dog or a toasted cheese sandwich. From the microwave!"
Toni laughed. "Sounds like a true-blue American kid to me."
"A true-blue American kid. Yes, he was." Veronica closed her eyes. "Then one day he was dead. And that, I think, is true Siciliano."
Praise for Elizabeth Quinn's
Any Day Now"A lovely, sensitive book."-- Kathleen Gilles-Siedel
"A stirring novel. . . .A fresh exposition . . . of racism, war and love."--
Publisher's Weekly --Inside-flap copy
From the Back Cover
On one side is the "family". . . on the other, the law. Tying them together is vengeance.
TONI ROSS, born Antoinette Cellini, has a lot to prove to her fellow officers after her partner is gunned down. Now the case that can save her career will forced her to face the shadows in her own mind about her Italian past, her teenaged son, and her needs as both a woman...and a cop.
VERONICA AIELLO LIPARI, pampered, beautiful, married to one mobster and daughter of another, has shocked the Feds by promising to tell all. But she isn't revealing her chilling reason...one that has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with hate.
NEIL EMMETT, tough U.S. Attorney, is a man driven by his obsession to stop the Aiello crime family. That passion forces him beyond the bounds of law, onto a dangerous ground where he may pay a deadly price for Veronica's clever lies...and for betraying Toni's willing heart.
BLOOD FEUD
From Sicily to Rhode Island, an ancient code demands a life for a life. And Toni Ross needs to know who is really marked for death in a dark world of betrayal, secrets and revenge. --Backcover copy
