
Wartime intrigue spans the lives of three women—past and
present—in the latest novel from the acclaimed author of
Secrets of a Charmed Life. 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. CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED
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