Publisher's Synopsis
As WW1 is coming to a close, James Woodville is shot down while flying over enemy lines. Elizabeth is devastated by the news. Under pressure from her father, Elwood, she consents to marry David, the son of Elwood's business partner, Sherman van Rensselaer. It is a marriage of convenience for the two families; brokered to produce a dynasty to inherit Union Press, the two men's business empire. The marriage becomes difficult when, on Elwood's death, Elizabeth inherits fifty percent of the company. She is now the equal partner of Sherman and insists on having a major role in the operation of the business. Neither David nor Sherman are happy, they believe a woman's place is in the home. Tensions rise ... then Elizabeth finds out that James is alive, and held in a German POW camp.
Cecily Markham, the daughter of General Sir Horley Markham, has left her family home in England after a row with her father and brother over the man she wishes to marry. Under threat of being committed to an asylum she has fled to France as an ambulance driver, where she hopes to find the man she loves, Peter Dorsey. Dorsey is a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, and a friend of James Woodville. In a series of coincidences as the war ends, all their lives become entwined ... though in a way that none of them could have imagined.
