Alba Grey

Alba Grey is an independent, self-assured woman who learned from a young age to stand up to the fate that was handed to her. At her grandfather's deathbed she made him a promise: to find some distant relatives she has never met and settle an old debt of the heart. Keeping that promise drives the story.

The novel has a varied cast. Some characters are moved by love, others are weighed down by regret, and others live for passion and adventure above all else. The book is also full of secondary plots, and it portrays an interwar Europe that trusted in a future that would turn out very differently from what it expected.