Enduring a lonely life in his London print shop, divorced American George Duncan rescues an injured white crane only to fall desperately in love with an enigmatic Japanese artist who seems to hold the potential to change his entire life.
After an event causes a post-apocalyptic world, Cal and Frida find out Frida is pregnant. Alone in a crumbling city, they decide they have to find help in one of the outer settlements, but the settlement's people are dangerous and harbor dark secrets.
The Ramseys, a wealthy family in early twentieth-century England, attract many friends to their vacation home in Scotland, but the intrusion of the Great War causes changes in their world and relationships.
Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War II, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant.
Told in alternating voices, this novel follows the events leading up to the violent dissolution of Jodi and Todd's marriage, a union steeped in lies, infidelity, jealousy, and denial.
