Remembrance

Her beloved Italian homeland shattered in the wake of the Second World War, the exquisite Serena, Principessa di San Tibaldo, has nothing left but her name, her ancestry and her heart — which she gives completely and forever to an American officer, Major Brad Fullerton.

Not even Brad's ring, nor his child, can protect her from the calculating wrath of the powerful Fullerton dynasty and from the woman who becomes Serena's bitter enemy. The story sweeps from the war-torn palazzos of Rome to the avenues of Manhattan and the world of high fashion.

When Brad is killed in the early days of the Korean conflict, Serena is left with a young child and no means of support. Drawing on the strength she found during the war, she turns her beauty into a modelling career — and becomes the object of obsession for a brilliant but unstable photographer. Danielle Steel spans two generations of women who learn to cope with the hand life has dealt them and prevail against the odds.