Set in the bucolic Pennsylvania countryside, this is a wonderful story of friendship, faith and growing pains of a young country as Ameerica struggles towards independence from England. As the Brisith army comes closer to Philadelphia during the American Revolution, Thomas, a Quaker grapples with the conflict between the faith with which he grew up and the duty that now seems of the untmost neccessity. When his two best friends (and cousins) join up in the Edgmont militia with him they all promise to take care of one another, no matter what happens. But war is nothing at all as any of them...

United States Navy officer, Ensign Thorp Karnin, meets a beautiful French woman named Genevieve Blondin in Naples, Italy. Genevieve's on vacation, while Thorp's ship, the USS Spencer, has just docked in poet. Captiviated by her beauty and charm, they take a quick trip to Capri before his ship leaves port. The two decide to meet up at his next free port in The Mediterranean. The lovers meet again in Cannes, France, but Thorp's ship again goes to sea. Genevieve attempts to keep up her good spirits, but senses that she is pregnant with Thorp's child. She loses hope as news spreads of the USS...