In 1959 Cuba, seventeen-year-old Natalia San Martín was nothing short of a princess, sheltered, pampered, and courted by her very own prince, a childhood friend turned lifelong love. She and Nicolas made grand plans to study abroad and travel the world, secure in the knowledge their tropical paradise—the home they loved above all others—would always be there waiting for them. All that changed on the fateful New Year's Eve when Fidel Castro and his followers seized control of the island with tragic consequences for not only the island, but for Natalia herself.
Five years later, it's the fall of 1964 and the United States is a country hovering on a precipice of massive change. The halcyon days of the Kennedy Administration have begun fading into memory as the ongoing Cold War, the escalating conflict in Vietnam, and racial unrest at home have begun to erode the sense of purpose and innocence that had gripped the country for three short years.
None of which really matters much to Natalia. For her, purpose and innocence disappeared five years earlier; these days, she merely suffers her new existence as Natalie Martin, firmly leaving her past where it belongs—until the moment it all catches up to her and forces her to face the choices she's made.