A Match For Maria

About the Book

A Baby Boom Generation, sexual coming-of-age love story. One woman's journey from widowhood, to divorce, to a happy life...in that order.

Maria Dolce worked hard to improve her lot in life. As a teenager she plotted how she would escape the invirons of her ethnic Brooklyn neighborhood. She succeeds when she marries Andy, but tragedy leaves her a widow and single parent. Years later she meets Parker at a tennis tournament, and following a whirlwind courtship, they marry. Maria's life with Parker is not a bed of roses, but she sticks it out for seventeen years before fate and circumstance change her life once again. In San Antonio, Texas, where she is competing in the Senior Games,she meets Gene. They find they have many more things in common than appears on the surface, and once again fate intervenes in Maria's life.

About the Author

Paul J. Grieco is a retired architect, born in Brooklyn, NY, who has competed in several National Senior Sports Classics, the background of this, his first novel. He now lives with his wife in St. Pete Beach, FL.