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Synopsis

Drew Smith, a teenager from a wealthy family in Rumson, New Jersey, is sent to a Swiss boarding school because of his academic and discipline problems. While there he falls in love with a young Italian girl named Alexandra Cavalletti, from Rome. Her parents come from a long line of aristocracy. Her father’s passion is horses, and he is probably the largest horse trader in Europe. He also owns a famous line of wines.

The relationship is cut short, however, because they are both expelled after being caught in the middle of their young passion during their second year in school. Despite that, they have a lifelong bond; each of their families gets ripped to pieces in different ways. Drew comes from a very dysfunctional family. His mother is a severe alcoholic and his father is abusive and mean. His parents finally split up and he is forced to live with his mother. Alexandra’s father dies during her second year at school. Her mother, not able to deal with her loss and the family business, goes insane and sells the horses to a meat company and burns the vines to the ground. Most of the family fortune is destroyed.
Both of them react to their situations in different ways, but they remain in contact and cross paths over the years. Drew never really lets go of her, even though she has moved on.

They finally do come together again as lovers, but the differences in their upbringing and cultural backgrounds don’t allow them to stay together, and the affair ends unhappily. Although the book is filled with pain and unhappiness, they walk away from each other stronger, and with the realization that they had both been chasing ghosts from their childhood that they could never have.