Julianna Starling graduated from Fleming College in Peterborough, Ontario with a degree in Health Information Management. She was born in Romania in 1990, and immigrated to Canada in 1991, where she lived the first part of her life. She then immigrated to the USA in 2010 to marry her husband. She is a full-time accountant, a volunteer in her community and runs her own commercial dog kennel and dog training company. She has two children who were her motivation for telling her personal story.

As you read, you will join her through her real-life journey across three countries, three citizenships, three legal names and two continents. Born into poverty and during the fall of communism in Romania, Julianna, by fate and choice has defied the odds and has prospered in America living the American dream.