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 Worldâs Fair.
âThe magnificent Anika Scott has written a lush and beautifully rendered novel that will keep you turning pages long into the night."" âAdriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone
Vengeance is in the family, and the family is a bond like no otherâŠ
Itâs the worst year of the Great Depression, and America needs all the hope it can get. The Chicago Worldâs Fair, a glittery city-within-a-city, becomes a symbol of the good thatâs yet to come. But every utopia has a seedy sideâand thatâs Rosa Mancusoâs world. As the mysterious Madame Mystique she mixes magic with a dose of bare skin burlesque, bringing customers to the home of the Fairâs carnival rides and spectacles.
Rosa doesnât perform for fame, though. She has come from Mussoliniâs Italy to America, where sheâs plotting her revenge for the murders of her family. The perpetrator will soon arrive at the Worldâs 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?
