Newly single Sarah Gratton is headed for a new life in Rome with a photograph of Lucia, the woman who saved her great-grandfather in 1944, determined to find out what happened to her. She hasn't taken his advice to find a red-hot Italian lover seriously but when searching for Lucia she meets dark-eyed Matteo di Serrone. This Italian count is ideal flirting material - if she's brave enough to make a move! Fortunately, the suspicious Matteo is! Matteo decides to keep this mysterious woman close - no hardship at all, given their spine-tingling awareness of each other...