World-renowned Neopolitan opera diva Francesca Frascatti journeys to New York to search for her daughter, the product of a love affair between Francesca and the son of a powerful nobleman, joining forces with Dante, a handsome detective, and Mina DiGianni, an Italian seamstress with an abusive husband, in a novel set against the backdrop of turn-of the-century New York. A first novel. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.