The chilling days of World War II brought shy young Englishwoman Elizabeth White to Kilgarret, Ireland, to live with the wild O'Connor family. It was here that she met Aisling O'Connor, the girl destined to become her best friend. They shared a room in the rollicking O'Connor house--and they quickly shared their hearts. Theirs was a friendship that would endure through years of chaos and change, joy and sorrow, soaring dreams and searing betrayals...an unbreakable bond that nothing could tear asunder--not even the man who threatened to come between them forever...