Nick de'Conti's vigilantism in Let No Man Be My Albatross (The First Novel of The de'Conti Series) caused his wife's estrangement. She divorced him because she could not abide the predator he had become to avenge their daughter's death. He pines and courts her in an attempt to win her back. But over time relationships become complicated. The upscale lawyer from Manhattan, the woman he loves most, his wife, is ambivalent. The uptown African-American woman from Harlem, with whom he fell in love during his most trying times, loves him more.