The Bride from Naples is an intriguing novel of challenges encountered by an Italian beauty from Naples and an American Captain from Philadelphia during World War I in Italy to the end of World War II in America. After the death of her widowed mother in 1914, Marguerite Selena, 15, chooses to live in Naples with her wealthy guardian over village life with a tyrant brother. Events during the war begin a constant struggle of survival without family and money. Fluent in English, she finds work in the office building leased by the American Army as Italian interpreter for Captain Keith Fields who hates anything Italian, especially Italian women. Then, he meets Marguerite. In spite of the obstacles, they marry.
In America, Keith
