It’s 1956, a hot August day in Greenwich Village.
Tessa Castle, a struggling jazz singer with a traumatic past, is shocked to open her mailbox one day
to find an envelope containing a wad of fifty-dollar bills, sent by an anonymous benefactor.
Henry Wood, who fell in love with Tessa at first sight when she sang  at his wedding
four years ago, has been searching for her since his divorce.
Leo Novak is an eccentric best-selling author suffering from a mysterious malady as well as writer’s block.
Robin Quigley, a private nurse looking for a husband, lives across the hall from Tessa.

    The lives of these four New Yorkers converge in a novel that encompasses the rise of rock & roll,
 Ike vs. Adlai, cardigan sweaters and white pumps, Yankee games on the radio,
painting-by-numbers, the complications of family or lack of one,
Dickens, Gershwin, twins, various wild coincidences,
​and—as promised by the title—those two elusive necessities, love and money.

Author’s Note: Sir Walter Scott defined a historical novel as anything set more than 60 years ago. Incredibly, 1956 makes the cut easily.  Writing Love and Money, I hugely enjoyed time-traveling back to that year, and also setting the novel in Greenwich Village. (In 1956, I was an eighth grader dreaming of living there myself someday.) After Duet and Amity Street, this is my third novel about a singer. (At various times in my life one of my nuttier daydreams was of becoming a cabaret singer like Tessa—also, preferably in the Village….)
Love and Money, for various very 21st-century reasons, was published under my own imprint,
Raven's Eye Publishing. 
It's available in paperback and ebook editions in all the usual places.​