War divides and love unties with random cruelty and sudden chance. Amid the rubble of war, passion flowers. The West's began World War II as a family but ended it fighting alone.
Jaime finds love in the arms of Nicholas a pilot risking his life at the height of the Blitz.
Martin survives the war and the hell of his wife's madness to witness a new dawn.
Briony defies her family and pays the price for passion with a man who by birth is damned and a traitor.
Eric turns his twisted Nazi hate onto his family.
From the Battle of Britain to the bloody Pacific atolls this story spans six years in the life of a family torn by war.
Constance Gluyas was born in London in the lean years following World War I and left school at the age of fourteen to go to work. During World War II, she served in the Women's Royal Air Force and supervised the main switch-board with a direct line to Europe during the Normandy invasion. After moving to California, where she lives with her husband, Donald, and daughter, Diane, Mrs. Gluyas began her career as a writer.