Freedom fighter, businessperson, wife, master of languages, and ultimately, savior of a European dynasty. Claudia Patterson would become all of these - spurred on by powerful loves and losses along the way. Denny Clark. A thirteen-year-old white boy whose life twelve-year-old Claudia saves. Robert Moore. Claudia's husband and partner on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. Ashley Booth. A Wall Street executive who brings the glamour of New York alive for the widowed Claudia. Giancarlo Pasquale Fortenza. An Italian automobile industrialist with whom Claudia reconnects, bringing her life full circle in the boldest, bravest, and most unexpected ways.