Here is the new novel by the author

of the best-selling A World Full of

Strangers the saga of an Italian-Amer-

ican family in San Francisco--with a

heroine "to rival Scarlett O Hara."

Beautiful Catherine Posada was

raised in New Orleans gentility, and

there were those who thought she

married beneath herself when she

chose young Dominic Rossi. educated

as a Harvard lawyer but born of poor

Italian fishmongers. But then Dominic

and Catherine moved westward to San

Francisco. and there, in the citv of the

Golden Gate. they were destined to

found one of the most dynamic, tem-

pestuous dynasties since Joe and Rose

Kennedy emerged from their Boston

beginnings.

The story of the Rossis. their loves.

their fight for power, their vivacious

offspring, their protean adventures in

a world made for them to conquer is a

panoramic, emotion-charged novel bv

a master storvteller--a multi-genera-

tional story for and of all Americans.