Publisher's Synopsis
Freedom fighter, brilliant businessperson, devoted wife, master of languages, and ultimately, saviour of a European dynasty. Claudia Patterson would become all of these - spurred on by the fiercely powerful loves and losses along the way... Denny Clark. An abused thirteen-year-old white boy whose life twelve-year-old Claudia saves - complicating her own life for years to come... Robert Moore. A young Black lawyer who becomes Claudia's beloved husband and partner on the explosive front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. Amid the violence of the Ku Klux Klan, Claudia has a shocking personal encounter - with unimaginable consequences... Ashley Booth. A Wall Street executive who brings the glamour of New York alive for the now-widowed Claudia, introducing her to an elite circle of Black peers. But their long yet uncommitted romance leads Claudia to move on - to an overseas assignment at an Italian bank... Giancarlo Pasquale Fortenza. An Italian automobile industrialist, once enamoured of
