Carlo Bardinelli was an ordinary, happy New Yorker. Full of vigor and spunk, he lived life to its fullest...that is...until the accident happened. Everything changed for him, nothing was the same. Somehow, life had escaped him... Delilah Luciano was no better. A woman that should've been in the prime of her years, how can someone so beautiful exist but not be alive? A prisoner of her own body, nothing seemed to move her anymore... Neither one could know the joy that life held for them until their dreary worlds somehow collided...

"Sometimes it's better to leave the past in the past..." When Rosa McKinney first heard those words from her aging mother, she couldn't understand the pain of knowing one's own history. After a class project she does with her students reveals a slice of her mother's background, she started wishing she'd heeded her mother's advice... Set in the 1940's, in a small town outside of Boston, Massachusetts, Rosa sets out to uncover the mystery of her family- as well as the key to her true self. Startling discoveries leads her to find out what lies behind her birth and her mother's earlier life. Dealing with the burden of a possible childless future and an interracial marriage, Rosa somehow burrows her way through the tumultuous ruins of what came before. Red and Green Apples is an enriching family saga spanning from the racial divide of the 1940s to the melting pot of the 1990s. A story that faces the cruelty and inhumanity of racism, it has the power to stay imprinted on the heart.