Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

Two worlds are waiting for her. She can only choose one.

Venice, 1710.

To the noblemen crowding the grand halls of Venice, the Figlie del Coro are miraculous, voices drifting through iron grates, adorned with poinsettias, untouchable and divine. To ten year old Agata, freshly stripped of her mother and delivered to the Ospedale della Pietà, the world behind those grates is simply the only world she has left.

But the Pietà is not only a cage. It is also a crucible. Under the demanding love of ...