The Seduction of Gloria

This is a fictional story of a fiery international romance between two extraordinary women Gloria Fernández a pediatrician from Cuba and Rosanna Maggiore an Italian university professor. The story which takes place in Havana and Rome is complicated by a chance encounter between one of the women and Roger Larsen a widower from Minnesota searching for a new life in Rome. The novel takes a look at life in Cuba at the historic relationship between the United States and Cuba as well as at the role of the Catholic Church seen through the eyes of a communist and a Lutheran. More significantly the book examines the decisions facing those individuals who are forced to consider political exile.