In a world where everyone is putting on a show, there is a love that is genuine.
Sarah Cummings has one dream in life-to break into Chicago's high society. Desperate to stop serving dinner to members of the wealthy Banning family and to start dining at society tables, Sarah spends her meager free time altering cast-off gowns to create the perfect wardrobe for her perfect life.
When opportunity knocks at a breathless chance meeting, she presents herself as Serena Cuthbert, weaving a fictitious seamlessly with her fictious name. But as she gets closer to her goal-and to Simon Tewell, director of St. Andrew's Orphanage-Sarah finds that she must choose between the life she has and the life she aspires to.
Can Sarah piece together the perfect life from scraps? Or will it all come unraveled in the face of true love?

Olivia Newport's novels twist through time to discover where faith and passions meet. She lives at the foot of Pikes Peak, where she enjoys lives in the Colorado sun with her husband and nearby grown children.