Beautiful Italian doctor Magdalena Russo is headed to a medical conference when the ship she’s traveling on is seized at the Panama Canal. World War II is raging, and the passengers aboard the Italian ship are deemed a threat to the United States. Magdalena and the other passengers are sent to Ellis Island where they are interrogated and detained. During her forced stay in America, she lends a hand with medical services and embarks on an unlikely friendship with hansom ship’s captain. Will the prisoners make it home to Italy before the friendship becomes something more? Free on Kindle.