The Wedding Officer

In Occupied Naples in 1944��twenty��wo year old James Gould is the ��edding Officer�� He's responsible for discouraging Allied soldiers from marrying local women. He takes his job seriously and is very good at it ��until the locals conspire for him to hire a local girl as his cook. Livia Pertini swallows her rancor for the Allies she blames for killing her husband��and goes to work to support her family in Vesuvius. She's not only a remarkable cook��she's also very beautiful. And slowly��under her influence��James stops worrying so much about war brides��black marketeering��and mafia corruption to concentrate on Livia. Has his heart become more important than his orders? The eruption of Vesuvius while Livia is with her family triggers a dizzying series of events that will answer that question once and for all . . .