From the author of the international bestseller The German Heiress a gripping historical drama
about a woman determined to avenge the crimes against her family set at the 1933 Chicago
World's Fair. Vengeance is in the family and the family is a bond like no other... It's the
worst year of the Great Depression and America needs all the hope it can get. The Chicago
World's Fair a glittery city-within-a-city becomes a symbol of the good that's yet to come.
But every utopia has a seedy side?and that's Rosa Mancuso's world. As the mysterious Madame
Mystique she mixes magic with a dose of bare skin burlesque bringing customers to the home of
the Fair's carnival rides and spectacles. Rosa doesn't perform for fame though. She has come
from Mussolini's Italy to America where she's plotting her revenge for the murders of her
family. The perpetrator will soon arrive at the World's Fair via a celebrated Italian air fleet
and Rosa is determined to be prepared. But when her estranged cousin Mina comes to her
desperate for help with a dangerous mobster close on her heels Rosa agrees to protect Mina
and her new baby born across the color line. With the clock ticking Rosa decides the only way
to survive is to make vengeance a family affair and prompt everyone to at last confront the
sins from their pasts. A gripping story of retribution belonging and survival Sinners of
Starlight City ?boldly explores the complexity of identities straddling ethnic lines and asks
who gets to decide who we are and where we belong?
