From the author of Violins of Autumn - As the threat of war hangs over Europe, Adam Harland takes his young wife, Elizabeth Kingsley, away from a burgeoning career as a concert pianist to Hong Kong, where Elizabeth determines to avoid Raefe Elliot, a notorious womanizer. But Raefe is the only man who has ever truly understood Elizabeth, and on the eve of the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong, she must make a momentous decision...