The beautiful Ellissia Shelby lived and worked in New York as a secretary. Her employer owned a worldwide shipping company. Having given her a promotion, she found herself transported to Italy with a team of directors and co-workers, falling hopelessly in love with one of them. A love that was not returned, by the quiet man who wore dark rimmed glasses. A man terrified, for his own personal reasons, of committing to marriage. A beautiful, fascinating love story, set in a number of famous cities in the most romantic country in the world.