Boca: A Novel

Katharine Epstein, a sixty-one year old woman, has lived her life in the lap of
luxury. Her father was a successful attorney and her mother was from a prominent
Protestant American family. She has two sisters, Phebe and Gloria. Katharine fell in love with a handsome Jewish medical student, Laurence Epstein, when she was in her late teens and ultimately married him. She converted to Judaism. Laurence's parents are religious and Holocaust survivors. They live on the lower East Side of Manhattan. Laurence had a sister Betty, a renegade, who left home at the age of eighteen.

After the couple married, Laurence's sister gave birth to an illegitimate
boy whom she planned to give up for adoption. Katharine and Laurence adopted and
raised the child. The couple also had three other children and had been married for over forty years when Laurence dies.

The novel is about Katharine and her family, and
the emotional journey she travels from the time her husband dies to the revelations after his death. We see her metamorphosis as she is faced with many challenges.

This riveting family saga exposes murder, deceit and greed and the pressures of
wealth, family life, love and truth.