When Rollie Birch returns home from the Great War in 1919 with a cluster of medals, he feels as if he\'s landed in the wrong country.
Do two lonely, passionate rebels have the moral courage to stand up to gossip, defy cultural boundaries, and dare reinvent themselves in a world forever changed?.
But neither Kay nor Rollie can anticipate how secrets, lies, and horrifying revelations may destroy them.
Did the war change him? Rollie might know, and Kay steels herself to beg information from a man her husband has publicly insulted.
She\'s dreamed of marriage as an equal partnership; now, she chafes under her husband\'s cold tyranny.
But when her husband-Rollie\'s former platoon commander-returns, Kay expects, correctly, that he\'ll make her quit her job.
Daughter of the Lumberton timber baron, Kay spent the war working for her father, organizing patriotic and charitable efforts, and discovering her love for politics and business.
The past two years have changed Kay Sorensen as well.
Almost overnight, Rollie the hero becomes a pariah for his scandalous decision to raise his daughter by himself-a child rumored not to be his-and for refusing to talk about his wartime exploits.
His small logging town of Lumberton, Washington, has grown but still runs on gossip.
His wife has died, leaving behind an infant daughter born while he was overseas.
When Rollie Birch returns home from the Great War in 1919 with a cluster of medals, he feels as if he\'s landed in the wrong country
