
But the past was about to vanish for ever, consumed in love so complete it made Serena dissolve with passion in the warm Italian night. The last thing she was looking for was love. When she went back to the family palace in Rome after the Second World War she was searching for a shining fragment of the past to hold her heart.

Yet behind her aristocratic face there was something hurt, something closed. All she had treasured before had been taken from her - would.

