The Marchesa

The beloved child of Baron Domenico Safamita, Costanza Safamita becomes her father's sole heir and is forced to take on the glittering society of Palermo, where she falls in love with charming but dissolute young marchese, in a novel set against the backdrop of the collapse of the Bourbon dynasty and the rise to power of the Mafia. By the author of The Almond Picker. 20,000 first printing.