Hot. Steamy. Sexy. Full of surprises. Compulsive reading. Richly informative. Viviana Vivienne Croccolo-Huwald was born in Egypt and she and her family had to flee Egypt when King Faruk was ousted. She takes the reader through the aftermath of the Jihadists takeover of Egypt and the vicissitudes of four young women and their families which subsequently move on to Sicily and Naples. Mitzi is the central character of the narrative and we follow her as her medical misfortune embitters her life while that of the other three young women flourishes. However the characters and the circumstances are fiction and any resemblance to true life must be regarded as purely coincidental. the author moved to Italy from where she migrated to Australia where with a post-graduate