A widow finds choosing a new husband might not be her choice at all, as the actions of her various prospects confine her freedom.

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this tale of death, seduction, blackmail, and theft amongst British and Americans in Florence, Italy in the turbulent days just before World War II.—[email protected]

Over a handful of days in 1938, a penniless English widow, on vacation near Florence, Italy, considers the marriage proposal of an aging British aristocrat who is the newly-appointed Governor of Bengal, accepts a pistol that he presses on her for safety, takes pity on an Austrian refugee, stands up to a fascist Police Chief, and gets in harm's way with an American playboy. After a good deed results in tragedy, she must choose between dependability and love, between her reputation and her feelings. Even that choice doesn't work out as she imagined.—<[email protected]>