Do we always know what's best for our children? Danielle Steel movingly explores the highs and lows of motherhood in this compelling family drama.

The book follows a young woman's extraordinary adventures in World War II and afterward in India, Pakistan, Morocco, Hong Kong, Moscow, and Washington, D.C., when her husband enters the foreign service and both become witnesses to a rapidly changing world from post-war to Cold War. She lives life on the edge, with a secret she must always keep hidden.