Her husband survived the war. But the man she married never came back.
San Francisco, 1943. Vivienne Hartley was once the city’s prima ballerina—until she gave up the stage to care for her war-wounded husband. Now she spends her days tending to a man who barely looks at her, desperate to reach the one she lost.
Then Danny, his younger brother, returns from war. The only one who seems to give a damn. The only one who remembers who she used to be.
When an audition for Swan Lake offers a way back to herself, Vivienne is forced to confront everything she’s been denying: grief, longing, and the dangerous pull toward the one man she can’t have.
Charlie needs her.
But Danny wants her.
And in a time where honor means everything, choosing herself might cost her everything.
