Newspaper columnist Faye Greene hopes her daughter, Pat, will not let the loss of her father keep her from marrying the man of her dreams. When Faye's husband dies in an auto accident, also leaving Pat with traumatic injuries, Pat is so stricken with grief that she continuously delays her wedding. It is Faye's discovery of a pearl necklace, from a recently purchased box of mementoes, that connects Pat to a love story of two teenagers, sixty-three years ago, that might bring her the hope she needs to walk down the aisle.

This necklace takes the reader back to 1952, when...