When Stephen Winters meets Lily, a young theater singer, he thinks she’s just the woman he needs to make him forget about the horrors he experienced during WWI. Lily isn’t particularly attracted to Stephen, but after her mother dies, marrage - despite threatening her suddenly promising career - seems like the best of her very few options.

As a reader, I didn’t find many compelling reasons to like either Stephen or Lily, and found by the end of the book that I didn’t care what happened to either of them. Unfortunate, since I’ve enjoyed some others of Gregory’s works.