World War II leaves Italian Princess Serena with nothing but an empty title. After Mussolini's soldiers kill her aristocratic parents, Serena works as a servant in her family's home before marrying her employer. She and American Major Brad Fullerton marry in Paris, and plan a happy life together in America. Then Brad is lost in Korea ...

To overcome the emotional scars of her own past, Vanessa Fullerton recounts her mother Serena's extraordinary life and tragic death.

World War II leaves Italian Princess Serena with nothing but an empty title. After Mussolini's soldiers kill her aristocratic parents, Serena works as a servant in her family's home before marrying her employer. She and American Major Brad Fullerton marry in Paris, and plan a happy life together in America. Then Brad is lost in Korea.

Her beloved Italian homeland shattered in the wake of World War II, exquisite Serena, Principessa di San Tibaldo, has nothing left except her name, her ancestry ... and her heart which she gives completely and forever to Major Brad Fullerton. But not even Brad's ring--or his child--can protect her from the calculating wrath of the powerful Fullerton dynasty, and the woman who will become Serena's bitter enemy. Sweeping from the war-torn palazzos of Rome to the glittering avenues of Manhattan and the glamorous world of high fashion. Here is the vibrant story of one woman's triumphant yet bittersweet journey of the heart.