What, No Roses?
by Marianne Mancusi

Unless Dora Duncan can stop it, it's going to be another St. Valentine's Day Massacre. A year ago, her (now ex) boyfriend Nick stood her up at the worst possible moment. That was when she gave up important TV reporting for stories like "Too Stressed for Sex." And though such clips have a certain relevance, things have been a whole lot quieter. Too quiet. Until now.

Now she's gotta go back in time (don't ask!) and stop that very same Nick from messing up the time-space continuum. She has to travel back to a place where everybody speaks easy and cuts a rug-and this Chicago ain't no musical. Here, there are tommy guns and torpedoes, guys and dolls, gin joints, flappers, stoolies, rats and a whole lot more; and prohibition means anything but no.

It's the 1920s. Time for Dora to roar.

Marianne Mancusi's Bio

Marianne Mancusi loved writing and blending genres from an early age, but against her high school English teacher's advice, she went to college for television and film. She ended up getting a job at Channel 7 News in Boston, where she is now a producer, but she couldn't shake the writing bug! In the summer of 2003, Marianne wrote A Connecticut Fashionista in King Arthur's Court a novel that combined her chick lit voice with her love for the King Arthur legend. Fashionista sold to Dorchester in 2004, and Marianne has since sold two more Chick Lit novels to Dorchester, plus four YA books to Dorchester Smooch and Berkley Jam. If writing and tv producing weren't enough to keep Marianne busy, she also enjoys snowboarding, bar hopping, shopping, traveling, and (her favorite guilty pleasure) video games.