Fifteen-year-old Dashti, sworn to obey her sixteen-year-old mistress, the Lady Saren, shares Saren's years of punishment locked in a tower, then brings her safe

De Blasi, a chef and food writer from St. Louis, begins a whirlwind romance with a man in Venice.

They had met and married on perilously short acquaintance, she an American chef and food writer, he a Venetian banker. Now they were taking another audacious le

"The Special Assistant to President Kennedy describes the historic events in which John F. Kennedy participated during his three years in the White House." --