In this heartfelt and throughful account, Eleni Marinos shares her dramatic and personal tale of life, love, and lessons learned. At the age of seven, she survived a catastrophic earthquake that devastated her home island of Zakyntos, Greece, leaving her and her family to grow up in the rubble. At 16, she was swept across the globe as a child bride, married to a cold hearted husband she had only just met. Through it all, she endured with curiosity, a loving nature and tenacity. Eleni shares the lessons about how she overcame her circumstances to eventually rise up and build one of the most successful haute couture businesses in Montreal.