When Delia Chandler, an eighteen-year-old southern girl, marries Viscount Ivor Conisborough just before WWII, it's every girl's dream come true, but when she realizes after the birth of her daughters that she was chosen only to bear an heir to his estate, she begins an affair with her husband's handsome best friend that will test her loyalties and separate her from those she loves most. Original.
Rebecca Dean sets her sweeping historical romance in London and Cairo, right before the outbreak of WWII. The tale begins with the young Delia, who is married to a viscount, and thrust into London's high society. Delia gives birth to two daughters, and the family is relocated to Cairo. Once in Egypt the story shifts its focus on the daughters, as they come of age in the midst of the approaching war.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Fiction + Literature Genres
- Subgenre: War + Military, Settings, Family + Friendship, Love + Relationships + Sex, Politics, General, Literary Genres + Types of Novels
- Publisher: Broadway Books
- Pages: 425
- Edition: Original
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: March 24, 2009
- Date Published: March 24, 2009
- Author: Rebecca Dean