Suspect Love: A Novel Set in WWII San Francisco When Italian Immigrants Were ‘enemy Aliens’

With the rise of Mussolini, and his entry into World War II alongside Hitler, San Francisco’s North Beach splits into warring factions. In this fractured community–made worse by the branding of Italian immigrants as ‘enemy aliens’–Paolo and Anita try to carry on their romance. How they do this forms the central action and symbolic drama of Suspect Love.