It's June 6,1951. Eighteen-year-old Diana D' Angelo stands at the Holly Hills train station amidst the teardrops of angels and the angered thunder of Heaven, as billows of smoke belch from the belly of the big Baldwin locomotive.
Michael asks,"Will you wait for me, my love?"
"I will wait for you, I promise." Diana says.
Regardless, war does not concern itself with childhood sweethearts and Valentines. And fate, it seems, picks and chooses who wins and loses. Accordingly, the letters from a world away suddenly stop coming. And when Tommy, their best friend, is laid to rest in a flag-draped casket. Diana has to won- der if there will be another 21-gun salute---this one even more heartbreaking.
This riveting novel takes us through Diana and Michael's journey of love and longing, life, and loss, laughter and tears, and everything in between--- elements of all our lives since the beginning of time!
