Great joy, great sorrow, great passion--

her magnificent new novel of the pain of

life . . . and the triumph of the human

spirit.

Only Cynthia Freeman could have

written this incandescent tale of love and

struggle stretching over a lifetime. Only

Mrs. Freeman could have created Ann

Pollock Coulter--a heroine of strength

and beauty, with the indomitable will to

prevail in both the good times and the

bad. Only the author of Illusions of Love

could have chronicled a woman s feelings

with such enormously affecting realism,

drawing the reader into the thrill of

youthful infatuation, the profound

sadness of intimate disappointment, and

the radiant peace of maturc romance.

When young San Francisco shopgirl

Ann Pollock met the dashing, aristocratic

lawyer Phillip Coulter, she fell instantly

in love with him. That he returned her

love seemed too good to be true, a

real-life fairy tale guaranteed to have a

happy ending. And when they married--

against the objections of both their

fa milics--they knew that nothing, be it

poverty, separation, or catastrophe,

could shake their adoration for each

other. But that was 1941, and all too soon events far greater than the two of them would tragically prove them wrong.