Inside the Hatboxes

In 1932, a fortuitous crime leads to a mystery that forever binds two families, the Scagliones and Bartletts. Tony Scaglione is a firefighter and John Bartlett a druggist. Their lives entwine through illnesses, unforgettable young love, a haunting rape, and an untimely death. Surprises come with each chapter, building a complex relationship between events, characters, and emotions.
While a mystery of family ancestry unfolds, pending disaster looms over the characters. Only the reader knows that the original crime must resurface from the depths of the past, where the two families have tried to bury it. And it does!