- A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and despite pressures from friends and family becomes romantically involved with him.
- Tongues begin to wag when a lonely widow becomes romantically involved with a military man. Problems arise when the gossip is filtered down to her own children.—Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com>
- Jessica Drummond is a recent widow whose husband died after a long illness. Drained by the ordeal, she is vulnerable and lonely but avoids becoming romantically involved with her family attorney despite pressure from her domineering mother. After fending off the lascivious advances of a friend's husband, she goes away during the Christmas holidays to a friend's vacation cabin. While skiing there she meets and falls in love with Scott Landis, an Army major on leave. Family and friends view the relationship as inappropriate, and gossip turns into a chorus of disapproval.—duke1029@aol.com
- In spring 1942 in the upper-middle-class community of Lake Forest outside Chicago, businessman Paul Drummond passes away after a lengthy illness, survived by his loving 33-year-old wife Jessica and their two early-teen sons Keith and Kim. Jess' life has been like being in a bubble of convention, where she is expected to do certain things, like to now wear black and grieve Paul's passing for the rest of her own life, much like her own mother, Mary Kimball, has done; were she ever to remarry, she must take someone respectable within the community and their social circle. Jess' friend and the family's lawyer Frank Everett such a suitable possible suitor. Her life is even more difficult in the boys already being away at boarding school, but beyond that fact, they are at an age of emotionally not relying on her for everything in their lives anymore, leaving her alone in the house at night with Paul's memory swirling around her. While she likes Frank as a friend, she doesn't feel the pangs of romantic feelings again until by chance that autumn she meets US Army Major Scott Landis. While her mother is more open in her disapproval, Jess spending time with Scott leads to her so-called friends talking disparagingly about her behind her back. She has to decide to follow her heart against that convention or buckle under the pressure, especially as it affects the boys' lives as well. Conversely, Scott has to decide if he fits anywhere into Jess' very-insulated world, especially as his own future is uncertain with the war still raging.—Huggo
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