Publisher's Synopsis
England 1944. In a tea room, young American pilot Tom Blake watches a woman who is waiting for a friend. He isn't looking for love, but seeing Anna Pilgrim changes everything. So begins a passionate affair. When he is shot down, Tom has no way of telling Anna he is alive and struggling to return to her, while the pregnant Anna must face gossip and the wrath of her mother. As the months pass, she begins to lose hope. How is she to know that the thought of her is all that keeps Tom going on the long and arduous journey home?
