For Carol and Dan Ross, love knows no bounds. Romantic, impetuous, mercurial, Carol is devoted to her strong, steadfast husband. Dan keeps her anchored in reality—except when they're both soaring on the wings of ecstatic lovemaking. Then Carol insists on clearing her French-born mother of having betrayed the Resistance in World War II...and Dan resolves to protect his wife from the potential dangers of her mission. Yet even he little dreams of the perils they will face in southwestern France as they stir the embers of memory and desire...