A sweeping, torrid story of a couple drawn together by love and the whims of a man with his fingers on the strings of their lives. He had brought Ludmilla and Lee together. Then he would rip them apart.
They were an unlikely match in 1955: she a model born in Ukraine and he an American racer. Both shooting towards the zenith of their careers, they were perfect for each other. Together, they were lightning in a bottle, a force and a passion barely contained.
The roads that had brought them there had been rough, though. Lee had come up the hard way, by the sweat of his brow and the steel in his nerves. Yet Ludmilla... it was Ludmilla who had truly been through hell.
The attraction between them was electric, atomic even. Each completed some very desperately needed part of the other. He was her anchor, while she was his stunning temptress. It was more though, love of the highest order.
Then their lives would be torn asunder. Ludmilla would be forced to do the unthinkable and Lee to endure the unimaginable. There was a true price in flesh to be paid for their happiness.
Nothing in life is certain. Triumphs, happiness, and even love are fleeting. All are but mere Trophies of Flesh and Ash.