The Songbird With Sapphire Eyes: 2 (Sapphire Songbird)

Speakeasies.Gangsters.Flappers.In 1918 Kansas City WAS Sin City! Forced to leave home at age fourteen beautiful Hannah Glidden struggles to survive but with help from her childhood friend Meg mistress to a wealthy married man and her roommate the irrepressible flapper extraordinaire Rosie she thrives as a cabaret singer.The early 20s roared. Fortunes were made or lost in a single night and criminals mingled with kings. Neither the government nor Prohibition could stop the flow of alcohol or the lure of the good life. Handsome rum runner Johnny Gallo is part of New Yorks large growing criminal empire where the sky is the limit. The ruthless Gallo has a knack for knowing the right people and a single-minded devotion to getting what he wants. And he wants Hannah.Hannah goes with Johnny to Al Capones Chicago and eventually to Brooklyn New York where she basks in the glamorous shadow world of gangsters and their gals. Johnny becomes a force to be reckoned with but in time the free-spirited Hannah clashes with her controlling lover.She faces the dark side of her dreams but dares to defy Johnny despite the dangers and unwittingly discovers that for her dying just might be the only true path to freedom after all.