“rish beauty diana cantwell meets max von hoffsten heir to a german count and their romance blossoms in the carefree days before the first world war but when they become engaged max father insist on a left handed marriage a custom among the german aristocracy in cases where the bride does not have the required pedigree so though diana will be max eventual title or wealth. give me an outline max and and diana agree to these term and the newlyweds dazzle from ascot to the riviera however as the dark cloud of war gather across europe diana become concerned by her husband unpredictability and what she suspects are sinister secret beneath his family glamorous lifestyle. when war is declared Diana finds herself caught between two sides as her own anglo-lrish family are fighting for the British and max is an officer in German army when max is reported missing presumed dead diana is rejected by is family widowed penniless she set out to rebulid her life.”