When your life together is in trouble from the start, any success you manage is gravy. Back then, they called it shell shock and Connor had it bad, but Bobbi stuck with him until her own craziness got in the way-and what about Hope? Bobbi and Connor met in Colorado Springs, where they were both serving out the end of their extended enlistments. The Army had turned Connor, a combat infantryman, into an MP patrolling the streets and Bobbi was building and repairing radios for B-24 Liberator bombers. They'd both already survived the Great Depression, Bobbi by singing in nightclubs with big band orchestras and Connor by wandering the western states, riding the rails and "camping out" in the National Parks.Like Kirstin Hanna's characters in The Nightingales and The Four Winds, Connor and Bobbi face traumas beyond their control with courage and sensitivity, but even with the help and advice of an extended family, can they craft a happy ending?