“Proud American” is a novel from the “Women of the Mediterranean Express” series.

Twenty-two-year-old Alexandra Carrington, nee Forbes, a rich beauty, sails in 1905 from her New York to Paris, where she intends to indulge high society pleasures without her husband, the chief prosecutor of the state of New York, who is not letting go of his cases. She flirts dangerously with the brilliant Duke de Fonsom, who is inflamed with unbridled passion for her. The virtuous heroine tries to hide from her admirer in Cannes, Venice, Vienna... Heartache is not the only thing that deprives her of peace: the trials that befell her five years earlier in Beijing are not over and directly threaten the life of the rich beauty.