Silk and Steel — Rita Balkey

The world was a grim place for sixteen-year-old Kalina Olkonsky. The turn of the century was at hand, but to a poor immigrant the future held no great promise. Yet despite the poverty-ridden existence she lived in daily in New York's Lower East Side, Kalina had her dreams...great love, wealth, success, power -- someday she'd have it all!

So when she had to choose between two men, she followed her head and buried her heart. She loved the poor hardworking Max O'Hara, but she wanted the luxuries and riches that industrialist Stefan Murav offered. The only thing missing was the passion that she so longed to experience...

FROM NEW YORK TO VIENNA, FROM RAGS TO RICHES, THIS IS THE STORY OF ONE WOMAN, HER LIFE AND HER LOVES!