November to July

November 1918: the bloodshed has ended. Here and there among the cheering crowds are lone souls quietly weeping-Eleanor Simons for one. At the age of twenty-two, she has spent the last four years helping to nurse British and French soldiers along the Western Front. She never expected to survive the Great War. Who would, with a fianc and many friends and colleagues among the millions dead? Having beaten the odds, now she finds herself adrift in Paris, heavy-hearted and unprepared for a long, blank stretch of lifetime ahead of her-while scores of delegates converge on the city to hammer out a peace treaty as quickly as possible. Will she find her way-and the diplomats find the world's way-into the promise of a goodly future?