Compelling, character-driven fiction of undying love, choronicling 50 years in the life of Kate, a passionate woman with an addictive personality. Beginning in 1941, several months before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Kate's safe, cloistered life is forever changed, the fourth and fifth USS Lexington aircraft carriers and a Mizpah Coin being crucial components. As she struggles to cope through the dramatic twists and turns of her life, her thoughts and emotions are intimately detailed, as if "stolen" from her personal diary. She eventually spirals into substance abuse and wild adventures with...