A wife and mother grapples with love and loss in World War II-era
Hollywood in a New York Times-bestselling author's emotional tour de
force.
For two decades, Elizabeth Herlong has been a devoted wife, supporting
her husband as he built an empire in Hollywood's budding motion picture
industry. But far from the bright glamour of her current life, World War
II rages in Europe, forcing Elizabeth to remember her past, awakening
feelings and longings she thought she would never experience again. Most
of all, she fears for her eldest son, who will turn eighteen in less
than a year and have to enlist in the army.
Then one night, Elizabeth's husband introduces her to a German
screenwriter he's been working with. Erich Kessler is a disabled veteran
of World War I attempting to make a new life for himself. Something in
his face stirs Elizabeth's heart--setting her on a journey of discovery
about the meaning of true love and the things that war cannot destroy.
Made into a film starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles, and Natalie
Wood, this is a novel of a woman haunted by the shadows of war both past
and present, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Jubilee
Trail, Deep Summer, and other acclaimed novels.
