Publisher's Synopsis
RICHARD is from a pre-war aristocratic family that has de- nounced his titles and deeds to live a common life among the common people, he is tall, refined, dark hair and dark eyes with a deep passion behind them, RICHARD had an arrangement with his parents as they wanted him to marry into another wealthy family for more titles and deeds but RICHARD who had spent seventeen years of his life living as an aristocrat had become very close to his butler MANNERED. MANNERED had shown RICHARD a simpler common life and RICHARD had fallen in love with that life.AVA is a common tongue, common lady who was left in an orphanage when she was three months old, she spent her younger years being shipped from foster home to foster home and in between being severely beaten and abused in the orphanage, she spent years trying to get a education while moving so much, she finally got a stable home in her late teens where she started a formal education in a public school while working as a house maid to the rich and famous.RICHARD sees AVA from across a restaurant their eyes connect immediately and they both realize there is more than just a friendly gaze there, they start a sordid affair behind AVA'S husband WINCHESTER's back, WINCHESTER is a royal marine general who has a great many problems with trust, loyalty, love, closeness and tenderness.RICHARD and AVA'S affair lasts over the course of the second world war while RICHARD is enlisted into the very platoon that general WINCHESTER is commanding, AVA is enlisted in the nursing core and struggles to find the courage to tell WINCHESTER that she is leaving him for RICHARD.WINCHESTER grows more suspicious as AVA and RICHARD begins to get ever reckless with their movements, WINCHESTER enlists the help of one of his trusted marines to help catch his wife in the act, unknowingly that it is RICHARD who is the culprit for the illicit act. Things grow tenser and tenser as WINCHESTER tries to find AVA and RICHARD out, while RICHARD continues to redirect WINCHESTER at every turn.WINCHESTER finally finds out the sordid secret and all hell breaks loose, WINCHESTER captures RICHARD while on a covert mission and intends to brutally murder him, a week passes, and AVA has growing concern about RICHARD and WINCHESTER'S wellbeing, then a knock on the door it's the MP's with a letter stating RICHARD has been found but is critically ill and WINCHESTER is MIA (missing in action)
