The Stone Maiden

A baby is found in a wicker basket in a New York abandon warehouse by the police after they receive a mysterious call from a man with a foreign accented voice. 28 years later, that baby is an attractive young woman who wants to find out who she is before she marries the rich upper crust young man. Soon she discovers people are interested in her search including one young man who offers to assist her but seems to be discouraging her at the same time. He also has a beautiful step-mother who also seems to have an agenda.

Eventually, Katherine discovers her father was an Italian peasant boy who witnessed a war crime from which he fled to New York but the Nazis followed him so he hid in Colorado until years later when his appearance had show more changed enough for him to return to New York to secretly watch his daughter grow up.

Carl Dietrich, the young man who is helping her also has a secret. His father had committed the war crime and now he is trying to keep his young daughter from finding out her grandfather had been a very evil SS officer.

After some violence in New York, the story's denouement takes place in the mountains of northern Italy. show less