Publisher's Synopsis
What does a woman do when she discovers a man on whom she had a teenage crush, and more recently with whom she endured a disputatious luncheon, will not be picking her up at Kadena, Okinawa Terminal because her sponsoring teacher is available to do so. That's exactly what happens to Christie Atherton, a twenty-seven year-old woman who accepts a teaching assignment on a small island in the western Pacific.
Despite the fact that she had a contentious history with Quint Brewster there still flickers a small flame of interest in Christie's mind that had never been fully extinguished. But after the argumentative luncheon at Quint's sister's apartment in Portland, Maine, Christie decides that Quint was one of the worst chauvinists she had ever met. That small flame of interest had finally been snuffed out. Or had it?
As time goes on, Quint's attitude towards Christie softens and after confronting his chauvinism, promises her that he will change. High drama dominates when Christie rescues an Okinawan man during a typhoon and later, with Christie's discovery that she has a half-sister. Courage and conflict wage war against longing and family secrets in this engrossing novel set against a backdrop of beauty and bloody history.
In this novel, author Welles Brandriff draws on his own experience on Okinawa and in Vietnam as an air force captain stationed there in the 1960s.
