Meet Contestant #7, a Historical Suspense!

A bit about this contestant:
Contestant #7 puts family first. In the sumptuous Greenwich Village, how could they not? Gangsters don't take betrayals of those closest to them lightly. Are you the right fit for this family?

The first words they'll say to you (a snippet from the first page):
I never needed to ask my godmother for a favor, until the day that my husband was offered a job at the White House. It was April in 1980, and James and I had been living in New York for only a year. We’d met each other in Paris and gotten married there, but, since both of us were American-born, we always thought of the United States as our home, so we were glad to be back. I thought our lives were pretty settled now, here in Manhattan. I was working as a news researcher for Time Inc., while James practiced law.
      But one bright spring day, James announced, “I’ve just had a very interesting chat with Cyrus Vance. He wants me to come work with him in Washington at the State Department.”
      “The Secretary of State wants you?” I echoed, awed.