The Witless Protection Program

Mia Carina has steered her Italian-American family’s Astoria,Queenscatering hallBelle View Banquet Manorinto becoming the borough’s premiere party siteand nothing could make her happier–except her boyfriend proposing. There’s just one presumed-dead obstacle in the way . . . A strongindependent woman and respected entrepreneurMia never imagined she’d pine for a marriage proposal. Yet latelywith her beloved Shaneshe’s on tenterhooks. It’s especially surprisingconsidering Mia’s first husbandAdamwas a philandering grifterassumed lost-at-sea after a boating disaster. But everyone knows what happens when you assume . . . While working a huge wedding expo in ManhattanMia is shocked to spot the man who nearly destroyed her life. The one who’s supposed to be sleeping with the fishes. But she loses him in the crowd. And when it happens again the next dayit’s time for an emergency meeting with the family–and the Family. Because if Adam is aliveMia is still married . . . Everyone wants Adam dead. Everyone except Mia. She’s dealt with enough police for a lifetime. Mia needs to be a divorc├⌐enot a widow. But someone out there disagreesand if Mia doesn’t discover whoshe may never be free to marry Shane–or anyone else . . .