B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree

The Coach House

Synopsis

The Coach House story begins in 1945 Chicago.  Newlyweds Marie Marchetti and her husband, Richard, have the perfect life together.  Or at least it seems until Marie discovers cryptic receipts hidden in their basement and a gun in Richard’s desk drawer.  When she learns he secretly attends a mobster’s funeral, her suspicions are heightened, and when she inadvertently interrupts a meeting between him and his so-called business associates in their home, he causes her to fall down the basement steps, compelling Marie to run for her life. 

Ending up in Atchison, Kansas, Marie rents a coach house apartment tucked behind a three-story Victorian home and quietly sets up a new life for herself.  Richard soon learns her whereabouts and lets her know he is not out of the picture yet, but ironically, it is the discovery of the identity of Marie’s real father and his ethnicity that unexpectedly affect her life more than Richard ever could.