Since Amazon hasn't posted an editorial review for this book, here is the description from the back cover to help you decide if this book is for you: "Somewhere in the unknown country was the man she loved and had risked everything to find again .... proud and beautiful Anna Haynow could hardly remember the luxury and gracious aristocratic life she had known in Europe. In a heartbreakingly short time, all that had been swept away by the currents of intrigue and the winds of war. Now she was a stranger in a strange land -- America, where marauding armies ravaged the countryside and no place promised her safety. Somewhere was the man who had once loved her dearly -- the man who would make her desperate gamble worthwhile, or mock her folly. Somewhere in the storm of conflict around her lay the happiness she sought, or the doom she could not escape." This is a novel of early America.

Since [there isn't] an editorial review for this book, here is the description from the back cover to help you decide if this book is for you: "Somewhere in the unknown country was the man she loved and had risked everything to find again ... proud and beautiful Anna Haynow could hardly remember the luxury and gracious aristocratic life she had known in Europe. In a heartbreakingly short time, all that had been swept away by the currents of intrigue and the winds of war. Now she was a stranger in a strange land -- America, where marauding armies ravaged the countryside and no place promised her safety. Somewhere was the man who had once loved her dearly -- the man who would make her desperate gamble worthwhile, or mock her folly. Somewhere in the storm of conflict around her lay the happiness she sought, or the doom she could not escape." This is a novel of early America.

An entertaining novel exploring high society life in Bar Harbor at the start of WWI when a German passenger liner is obliged to find a neutral port when hostilities break out between Germany, England and France.

Billed as a love story, that may be a bit of a stretch. The arrival of the ship is a fact; the characters that populate the novel are fictional creations and their courtships seem a lot more like business arrangements than love affairs. If anything, the real love may be between the town and the ship!

In this novel the characters who are in love are too often not developed fully so their motivations remain unclear. A number of other characters are vividly created (especially the grand dame of the novel and, by extension, Bar Harbor in 1914), so the author clearly has the ability to round them out.

I liked the book, just felt it was perhaps more spare than necessary.