Hidden Letters

Mike Cunningham is ending his life's journey. He's desperate, contemplating suicide because Margaret, the woman he loved more than life, has died. They met in Italy in 1955 while he was on military leave with two GI buddies. Margaret's cute, sexy, from England, and on holiday with her mother. They fall in love in romantic Italy; an innocent love born in Rome that climaxes in Venice. But their romantic holiday ends when they have to say goodbye in Basel, Switzerland. Just before...
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Mike Cunningham is ending his life's journey. He's desperate, contemplating suicide because Margaret, the woman he loved more than life, has died. They met in Italy in 1955 while he was on military leave with two GI buddies. Margaret's cute, sexy, from England, and on holiday with her mother. They fall in love in romantic Italy; an innocent love born in Rome that climaxes in Venice. But their romantic holiday ends when they have to say goodbye in Basel, Switzerland. Just before Margaret and her mother's train leaves for Paris, Elizabeth invites Mike to come with them to England, but he has no more military leave time and has to decline. He promises Margaret he'll write but, instead, he runs away from love to marry his fiancee back home, the girl he never told Margaret about. It's a decision Mike regrets the rest of his life. Then, 35 years later, after a divorce, back in Italy, he miraculously finds Margaret again, marries her in England and bonds with her adopted son, Melton, the stepson he loves more than his own children. It's through Melton and his association with Mike's high school buddies, Bob & Frank, the other two Musketeers, that Mike and Margaret's love story unfolds, a story that includes mystery and surprise due to hidden letters written by Margaret and her mysterious and interfering aunt Martha, letters that surface while Melton is searching for his birth parents, letters that are linked to the mysterious and powerful Staunton Historical Society and two Staunton antique desks that date back to 1689, letters that ignite fireworks when revealed. But it is aunt Martha's letter, hidden for forty-five years, that creates the biggest shock wave.