In a marriage of convenience, Taylor Stapleton will wed Lucas Ross, an American rancher. Her English grandmother's money will pay for Lucas to return home to Montana, and he and Tayior have agreed to go their separate ways once they reach Boston. But as her handsome new husband speaks of life in Montana, Taylor begins planning a new future. To her, the wide-open spaces of Montana sound like paradise....

Paul Janson has a difficult past, which includes a shadowy, notorious career in U. S. Consular Operations. Now living a quiet life, nothing could lure him back into the field. Nothing - except Peter Novak, a man who once saved Janson's life, who has been kidnapped by terrorists and is set to be executed. Janson hastily assembles a team of former colleagues and protégés to rescue Novak, but the operation goes horribly wrong. Now Janson finds himself marked for death and his only hope is to uncover the truth behind these events - a truth that has the power to foment wars, topple governments, and change the very course of history.

Thi is a deeply personal portrait of a young woman becoming a writer. Anellia looks back on her first years in college at Syracuse University in the 1960s. She's haunted by her mothers early death, and by the guilt her brothers and father cast upon her. She is then swept away by an intense love affair with an extremely gifted Black philosophy student. In an era when inter-racial relationships were thought unseemly in mainstream society, her torturous affair can only lead to Anellia's further alienation. Anellia's sense of rejection reaches a turning point in the final section, when her father unexpectedly reappears in her life, and she makes the journey from upstate New York to the Midwest to be with him in his final days. In her search for acceptance and truth, she discovers the power of her own survival.