Paperback. Pub Date :2013-12-22 Pages: 720 Language: English Publisher: Mariner Books In the summer of 1946. New York City pulses with energy Harry Copeland. a World War II veteran. has returned home to run the family business. . Yet his life is upended by a single encounter with the young singer and heiress Catherine Thomas Hale. as each falls for the other in an instant. They pursue one another in a romance played out in Broadway theaters. Long Island mansions. the offices of financiers. and the haunts of gangsters. Catherine's choice of Harry over her longtime fianc endangers Harry's livelihood and threatens his life. In the end. Harry must summon the strength of his wartime experience to fight for Catherine. and risk everything.