Twenty-two years after coming home from Vietnam, Paul
Tremaine still carries the psychic scars of his experience
there, in particular the memory of a skirmish he and no one
else survived. Settled back in his small New England
hometown and running a nursery and landscaping business,
Paul is determined to erect a memorial to his fallen
comrades. He doesn’t count on opposition from Bonnie
Hudson, a local schoolteacher and the mother of a teenage
son. Her late husband was a famous antiwar activist
murdered for his beliefs, so she, too, is a survivor of
that war-torn era. And she’ll fight the glorification of
war, even if it means standing in the path of Paul’s
memorial.
Yet neither Paul nor Bonnie count on the attraction that
draws them together, or the soul-deep empathy that binds
them as they face new battles together. Can love heal their
scars so they can make peace with their painful past and
face the future together?