In a sweeping, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, the gods hold the fates a�" and the hearts a�" of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by the goddess Aphrodite, who must spin the tale or face judgment on Mount Olympus, is filled with hope and heartbreak, prejudice and passion a�" and reveals that, though War is a formidable force, ita�TMs no match for the transcendent power of Love.