A story of the Greatest Generation's hidden anguish. From the killing fields of the Battle of the Bulge, Wendell Smith brought home to Texas horrible memories of the battlefield...and a secret...the one thing he could not confide to the love of his life. The beautiful young woman named Claire had a secret of her own. After a chance meeting, theirs would be an unusual friendship of haunted survivors. But would the bond heal them, or destroy them both?...