An unforgettable, novel yielding the fruit of hidden passions, corrosive secrets, and tragic rebellion that simultaneously shape and echo the fortunes of three generations.

          At the center of the storm are the beautiful Anna trying to undo the damage of the past…Iris, whose marriage to Theo, the brilliant surgeon is foundering… then son Steve, caught in the turbulence of the ’60s, a political radical wanted by the FBI… and Paul Werner, the powerful banker, driven to help the family that barely knows him.

          One of the strains of forbidden and forsaken love, shattering secrets and uncompromising differences…