Destiny's Bequests

In this novel genes will out. The seminal event is passionate lovemaking after a heated argument. Destiny steps in and a chain of circumstances begins with a beloved wife's death in giving birth to twins.</p>One twin stolen and left as a foundling is picked up by a young Italian matron in a church. Illegally adopted he grows up among sisters the adored son of an extended family headed by a war hero with mob connections.</p>The other twin lives with his bereft father who blames himself and the twins for the death of his wife. Expelled from school and a runaway he is taken in by his uncle and grows up on a working ranch in Wyoming with his two cousins his fiercely loving aunt and an old man who once saved the life of Gov. Franklin Roosevelt.</p>This heartwarming story of family and friendship courage and tenderness and the hard and sometimes bitter struggle for truth twists in intricate paths toward a resolution that gives new meaning to the phrase separated at birth and puts a smile on Destiny's face.