When playing by the rules means stepping over the line…Sometimes starting over means trying out assault and battery, especially when the object d’ violence is a cheating husband caught in the act. Restraining orders aside, safety comes in numbers and having certain … standards.For Jessamine chaos and capitulation are facts of life. Giving up dreams to service her husband’s ambitions and enabling the same blind submission in her own daughter ends abruptly, leaving her rootless, homeless and destitute. For some people, it is the kindness of strangers who make the difference but for Jes it is the unlikely alliance of the mother-in-law-from-hell, a devastatingly handsome basketball coach and a phalanx of determined team members who convince a woman of a certain age that beginning again doesn’t mean giving up or giving in.The only problem is … there’s that pesky 90 day rule.

Three brothers from the fabled Medici family. Two operatives from the future with conflicting agendas. 1515 Venice. Politics, greed and war with a side of religious fervor. An epic journey through the tangled morass of one world gone mad, the other on the brink of another apocalypse. One woman, four men. Hearts beating separately. Hearts beating as one. All cloaked in the shades of time.