Countess Athena & Godfather’s Twins

About the Book

Countess Athena & Godfather’s Twins is the first book of a four-book series. This book series illustrates eighty years of Sicilian family life - their love and devotion, traditions, commitment and loyalty, royal families merging, wealth, survival, and crime. All these factors had an influence on the world, both in America and abroad.

The author began to research and document five generations of historical events in an effort to learn what happened to Duke Vito and Duchess Marie Cornino twenty years ago, along with their eight grandchildren who were four of the five sets of twins, and the great-grandchildren of Countess Athena Marie Castellammare; and Duke Don Vito Cornino, the godfather of Palermo, Sicily.

Braron Tony Zibelli, his wife Countess Florence Zibelli, along with seven other family members and their security, domestic, and medical staff, as well as their two pilots, were last seen in Zurich, Switzerland in August 2001, while doing some banking business. They mysteriously disappeared and no one has seen or heard from them since. Rumors have spread that they were in a plane crash; others say they were in a shipwreck; and still others have said they are on a private island in the South Pacific . . . another theory is they were kidnapped by the Russian Mafia.

About the Author

The author Lewis Barton was a teenager in 1960, he built a Street Rod (a Ford Model A, 5-window coupe), which after 60 years, he still owns and drives.

In high school, Lewis and his buddies played baseball in a flat field that his dad farmed. He later found out that it was this same field where his third great-grandfather, Josh Barton, had trained prior to mustering and being wounded at Bunker Hill during the Revolutionary War. His grandfather recovered from his injuries and wintered at Valley Forge. Returning to battle, he fought at Yorktown until the battle was over. He then walked 700 miles to his New Hampshire home carrying his musket.

The Barton Family has a history of serving in the United States military, with the author Lewis Barton serving in the army during the Vietnam War. Lewis Barton is a Corps of Engineer service connected disabled veteran.

He graduated MCI in Pittsfield, Maine in 1963. In 2004, he was a “Presidential Point of Light” recipient presented by George W. Bush for his TV broadcasting and humanitarian acts during the 2004 hurricanes of Francis and Jeanne on the Treasure Coast of Florida. A film documentary, “The Eye of Two Sisters” was produced and received international recognition.