As Silent as the Night

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>He can procure anything except his heart's deepest wish. She might hold the key if she's not discovered first.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Chicago 1933</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>?Lucia Critelli will do anything for her ailing grandfather including stand in a breadline to have enough food to make him a St. Nicholas Day meal. When she catches the eye of a goon who threatens her grandfather she discovers the end of Prohibition doesn't mean the end of the mafia's criminal activity.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Retired Marine Scout Giosue Gio Vella can find anything especially if it helps a fellow Italian immigrant so he has no doubt he can locate his neighbor's granddaughter who has gone missing from a local church. Keeping her safe is another matter. Especially when he chooses to hide out with his Marine buddy in Eagle Wisconsin the site of a barely-held truce among striking dairy farmers.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Will Christmas bring the miracle they all need or will Gio discover there are some things even he can't find particularly when he stumbles upon the most elusive gift of all: love.</span></p>