Italy, 1906. Sophie Romano's excitement at the prospect of moving to Britain with her parents, belies the many tragedies that are about to change her young life.

The family's silk business, a silk farm in Italy and a mill in Britain thrive as British society scrambles to wear Romano Silk. A bright, intelligent women, the son he never had, her father encourages Sophie to learn the business, unusual for Edwardian time. That is until jealous and devious competitors strive to bring down the Romano empire, inciting rebellion on the factory floor, total destruction and death, even murder.

Sophie, only sixteen and in love with the one person she thought she could trust is abandoned.

Teetering on the verge of one more enormous loss. How will young Sophie survive?