Johanna March--adrift in Florence after the job she is promised fails to materialize, her father dead after a long illness, all her ties to her home in the States cut, barely enough money for another day at the modest Pensione Boldini--is desperate. Encountering the polite Italian she had shared a table with at breakfast, she sees the man murdered before her eyes--Suspense, danger--and romance--become Johanna"s lot as she grows closer to the colorful family in whose midst she has landed-and closer to learning what really happened that rainy night in Florence, and why. As she does so, she comes very close to her own death as well. Jacket notes