The only daughter of a European banking dynasty, Raphaella had always been sheltered from the world. Married to a much older American, she was kept in the privacy of great luxury, tended to by servants, watched over by bodyguards. She was the beautiful, dark-eyed woman the young lawyer from San Francisco, Alexander Hale, saw sitting alone and sobbing one misty evening. Before he could approach, she rushed away into a walled garden. But she was the perfect stranger he couldn't forget. When they met again their lives would change forever.