September, 1943. Tuscany, Italy. Everything Vittoria Guidi knows and loves is at risk. As her country is torn in two, so is her conscience. Should she side with her Scots-Italian father or her Fascist mother? Frank Chapel, a young, black American soldier fighting with the Buffalo soldiers is unlike anyone Vittoria has ever met. In the chaos, they find each other - but can their growing love overcome prejudice and war? A sweeping wartime novel about love, identity and conflict in occupied Italy.