Claire Daussois, sheltering refugees in her home in Belgium during World War II, falls passionately in love with a downed American pilot, despite the fact she is married and the relationship has no future.

Twenty years ago a violent act shattered Eden Close's world. Now a former neighbor, Andrew, returns for his mother's funeral and to find out what really happened to Eden.

"An epic story, set against the backdrop of World War I, from bestselling author Anita Shreve. When an American woman, Stella Bain, is found suffering from severe shell shock in an exclusive garden in London, surgeon August Bridge and his wife selflessly agree to take her in. A gesture of goodwill turns into something more as Bridge quickly develops a clinical interest in his houseguest. Stella had been working as a nurse's aide near the front, but...