Roseann M. (rose7a) reviewed on 4/27/2005 + 124 more book reviews

It is 1950 in glittering, vibrant New York City, Lucia Sartori is the beautiful twenty five year old daughter of a prosperous Italian grocer in Greenwich Village. The postwar boom is rife with opportunities for talented girls with ambition, and Lucia becomes an apprencie to an up and coming designer at chic B. Altman department store on Fifth Avenue Engaged to her childhood sweetheart, the steadfast Dante DeMartino, Lucia is torn when she meets a handsome stranger who promises a life of uptown luxury that career girls like her only read about in the society pages. Forced to choose between duty to her family and her won dreams, Lucia finds herself in the midst of a sizzling scandal in which secrets are revealed, her beloved career is jeopardized and the Saroris' honor is tested

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