Theirs was a wartime romance, a wisp of a breeze in the sultry South Pacific, a promise made amid threats of invasion and attack. World War II would go on with or without them but their lives would be forever changed by its course. Candleshine Thatcher had wanted to be a nurse for as long as she could remember and now at last her skills would be used to the utmost. Lieutenant Jeffery Fairfax wanted this war to end so he could go back to his beloved ranch in Montana. Their meeting is coincidental, their goodbye almost inevitable.