With her first husband dead and the war still ferocious, Victoria finds herself nursing injured soldiers on the Burma front. There she meets charismatic American, Captain Taylor King and, impulsively, marries a man she barely knows. But when Victoria becomes pregnant with his child, she must leave the only security she knows to start a new life as Henry's wife in Boston. But Taylor is not the loving, gentle husband Victoria hoped for and the arrival of an unexpected visitor changes their lives for ever. Victoria is forced to make some difficult decisions and begin again in England. She has lost so much in her life - will her homecoming give her her greatest wish - to be reunited with those she loves?