First published 2008
Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington lives in luxury between Fifth Avenue and Newport when the Titanic sinks in April 1912, destroying her family and fortune. She channels her grief into nursing work among the poor, discovering her calling in medicine. Marriage brings new heartbreak when her husband's betrayal creates a scandal that drives her from New York. Annabelle escapes to France during World War I, where she works as an ambulance medic in a field hospital run by women. She studies medicine while saving lives on the front lines. After the war ends, she stays in Paris as a doctor and mother, leaving her past behind. Years later, an unexpected encounter reopens her heart to the world she abandoned. Annabelle must decide whether to return to New York, this time as a transformed woman who has built strength from loss.
Genres: romance, american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, adult-fiction, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, second-chance
Setting: Fifth Avenue, Newport, France, Paris, New York
Period: 1912, World War I
336 pages · Hardcover · Delacorte Press