She is a gorgeous, wealthy Texan who suffers a tragic loss of her child. Her name is America Harvey. She buries her grief by hard work, becoming a jet pilot, building a courrier service airline. Then, attending her best friend's wedding in Spain she meets the most glamorous man in the world. He is Alfonso, the Duke of Tarifa, a major Spanish banker with a wife and eight children, but it was a marriage of convenience so he is a free man and they fall deeply in love across a background of the Spanish Riviera, Paris, all of Europe. Alfonso's fortune and ttles go back to the year 800. We see him as a child in 1936 when the Spanish Civil War is caused by a bloody, murderous wave of revenge by the working people against the upper classes of Spain. The savagery is unimaginable.