Slow Dance to Samarra Author:Anne Paolucci While on vacation in France, Katie Hastings, widowed several months earlier, visits her wealthy cousin & only living relative, Charles Benson, now living on the Riviera. Benson bluntly asks her to help him get rid of his alcoholic wife. Emma, who has become an embarrassment and burden. Stunned and angry, Katie notes the irony in his wanting to g... more »et rid of his spouse, while she is still mourning her husband of just over a year, killed in the nine-eleven terrorist attack. Her cousin shocks her again by telling her that Frank is not dead but took advantage of an incredible opportunity to disappear, starting a new life in Canada, under the assumed name of James Chadwick and marrying (without the benefit of divorce) a woman he met in the Spring, while attending a medical claims conference in Toronto...« less