As one of the books in RC Marlen's Trilogy, "Tangled Threads" tells of the life of Ellie Bartlett, the wife of the pharmacist, during the twentieth century. A poignant story of an extraordinary woman who was born during a tornado, does Irish dancing, writes for a newspaper when women could not, and meets Al Capone. The reader shares her life as she falls in love, marries, and has her children. She is carefree and intelligent until something unknown changes her. Years run into decades as the family tries to learn what happened to Ellie and, during that time, Ellie falls deeper and deeper into trouble. Not until the funeral of her husband, the pharmacist John Bartlett, is the mystery solved. The answer was in a simple birthday card given decades before.