Once Lamour Harrington was a carefree little girl, following her charming, hard-up, writer father to Italy first Rome, then the lovely Amalfi coast Now, nursing a broken heart, she decides to leave Chicago and her career as a landscape architect to rediscover the Italy of her memories In Amalfi, the Castello Pirata with its Japanese garden still stands their cottage still waits for her It even seems as though love has come back into Lamour's life as the heir to the castello - glamorous Nico Pirata - sweeps her off her feet But why does his father Lorenzo hate a woman he only ever knew as an innocent child? As Lorenzo plots to make Lamour leave Amalfi forever, long-hidden secrets come to dangerous life again