From the first day he saw her on the deck of an ocean liner bound for America, Leonard Morris had known that Evelyn Glover was the woman he wanted to marry, but had his proposing to her really been his own idea or just another part of the massive play-script Eve seemed to have been writing for them both?For Eve had a strength that few men even dared to understand, and now that she had found Four Thrushes, would anything ever be more important to her than the house: a charred ruin against the ragged skies of war?For now that house was about to release all of the dark secrets and hidden passions it had concealed for three generations.