Rebecca Walton is the heir to the enormous fortune of Mafia boss, Vincent Scalabrese, much of which is held in secret foreign bank accounts around the world. She is immediately faced with the ethical dilemma of whether it is right to use ill-gotten wealth to accomplish great good for society. Ultimately she decides to fulfill Vincent’s dream of building a youth center and college in Boston. But she doesn’t imagine the powerful forces that will be working against her—Vincent’s family, the u...

Jack Wagner is a 17-year-old Texas boy who wants to join the Marines. He is from a Marine family. His grandfather, uncle and father were all highly-decorated Marines, who fought in World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam. When his father was killed in Vietnam, Jack resolves to become a Marine himself, needing to understand what his father had thought and experienced and to complete the work that he started before his death in the Central Highlands. This remarkable story follows the ca...

Vincent Scalabrese is the godfather of the New England underworld. Seven years before, he had come to the aid of a young Boston lawyer, Rebecca Walton, who was about to triumph in her very first murder defense trial. It would change his life. Rebecca was the daughter he had always wished for—extremely bright, hard-working, adventurous, imaginative. They formed an immediate relationship that soon became almost that of a father-daughter. Now, Vincent is once more called to protect Rebecca, w...