During the Vietnam War, a career naval officer from the other side of the tracks encounters an antiwar doctor from one of Beacon Hill's oldest and richest families—two opposite courses that collide over the divergent world views that inform their thoughts and actions. A tender story of love and redemption that will deeply touch you—one that far transcends enemies to lovers. The book closes on a couple changed by their love and shared danger, but also drawn closer with the conviction that each of them is better and stronger for the other, reflecting the need within each of us to be loved. (Awarded the Gold Medal for Literary Fiction by the Military Writers Society of America.) 71,000 words