Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women--past and present--in
this emotional novel from the acclaimed author of The Last Year of the
War.
February, 1946. World War Two is over, but the recovery from the most
intimate of its horrors has only just begun for Annaliese Lange, a
German ballerina desperate to escape her past, and Simone Deveraux, the
wronged daughter of a French Résistance spy.
Now the two women are joining hundreds of other European war brides
aboard the renowned RMS Queen Mary to cross the Atlantic and be
reunited with their American husbands. Their new lives in the United
States brightly beckon until their tightly-held secrets are laid bare in
their shared stateroom. When the voyage ends at New York Harbor, only
one of them will disembark...
Present day. Facing a crossroads in her own life, Brette Caslake
visits the famously haunted Queen Mary at the request of an old
friend. What she finds will set her on a course to solve a
seventy-year-old tragedy that will draw her into the heartaches and
triumphs of the courageous war brides--and will ultimately lead her to
reconsider what she has to sacrifice to achieve her own deepest
longings.
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