The Bootlegger's Wife

Book excerpt: Life often demands much of love. True love always answers, yes.In the summer of 1919 the country was ready to throw off the gray days of war and laugh again. The 1920s were about to come roaring onto the scene and change every one's mind. It was a time when people believed anything was possible, even a love that was doomed from the start.Nineteen-year-old Frances Durant was ready for excitement. What she wasn't ready for was a tall, tanned Marine, fresh from the battlefield and ready to take New York City by storm. Frankie Lee was just the sort of guy to sweep a restless young heiress off her feet. Their two worlds collide on the dance floor and set in motion a love story that careens through the twenties, when the world thought the parties would never end, to the crash of 1929 and the devastation that followed. A brush with the dark side of the bootleg world, and a tragedy that reaches out from the cold dark night will test young love over and over. Can two people from such very different worlds survive the ride?