Drop of Fire

by RC Marlen

Overview

Italy, 1846

Abused by his father and tormented by his brother Regalito, seventeen-year-old Antonio Scaglione plans to sail to America with the ruby necklace he steals from his brother. He soon learns the necklace has a Gypsy's curse that will kill the wearer.

USA, 1848-1912

Over the years, Antonio forms a friendship with Thomas. Antonio becomes a fearless firefighter who saves many lives yet he cannot keep the ruby necklace from taking lives. In 1905, his brother Regalito learns where Antonio lives and arrives on his doorstep, wanting the necklace. To Antonio's amazement, the ruby necklace is gone. But where?

After Antonio struggles to save himself and his grandson from Regalito's fiery revenge, he must face the painful secret of where the ruby has gone.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940167082335
Publisher:	Sunbird Press
Publication date:	01/20/2023
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	666 KB

About the Author

RC Marlen (a.k.a.Rosalie Marlen Schele) spent her first forty years in St. Louis, Missouri. While growing up, she lived with the six Marlen siblings and worked in the family drugstore which provided much of the material for this novel as well as her second book, The Drugstore, which is not yet published. After college, she taught Mathematics, earned a Masters, started a business in Los Gatos, California teaching adults about computers, and then fell in love with Henry Schele who took her to live in Chile and Argentina for fourteen years. In the year 2000 she finished Inside the Hatboxes and three months later became a widow.