Author Description

The child of a single mother who works as a seamstress, Sira Quiroga has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a government clerk. Then two charismatic men burst into her life: a salesman and the father she never knew. Sira follows her lover to Morocco where, abandoned and penniless, she reinvents herself by creating beautiful clothes. But as World War II approaches, she returns to Madrid and enters the dangerous world of espionage.