Young Missy, who has known of high feelings only from love novels, meets a stranger whom no one in the town of Byron knows anything about. The only thing that’s known is that this man bought the valley near the town and intends to build a house there so he can listen to the silence alone. And so it happens that in a tragic moment in the girl’s life, the very same mysterious stranger comes to her aid…
Colleen McCullough, author of the famous worldwide bestseller “The Thorn Birds,” once again brings us back to the theme of reckless love and passion—the theme that has always stirred human hearts.