Roses in Winter — Joan Dial

From the history of two generations touched by two great wars, comes a soaring epic of the human heart...of a girl born to a dying woman in the Great War's last dark hour, to live in England's most privileged splendor...of a young man who ran from a world of riches to the wild freedom of the mighty Mississippi.

In the bleak mines and stately mansions of post-war Britain...the teeming streets and smoky brothels of New Orleans...the intrigues of the French Resistance...the terrors of Hitler's Gestapo...

And in all the passing years between...

They shared a lifelong mystery begun in the dying echoes of an old battle, and found a love whose seeds were planted in the war-scorched earth, to flower at last, like...ROSES IN WINTER