In this heartfelt and thoughtful 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 Zakynthos, Greece, leaving her and her family to grow up in the rubble. 

At sixteen, 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 of how she overcame her circumstances to eventually rise up and build one of the most successful haute couture businesses in Montreal.