Deborah was young and innocent; Benton was worldly and experienced. Hers was a quiet fire; his was and inferno or rage and revenge. But as the world rumbled with the thunder of battle, they were struck by the lightning of passion. A moment's attraction grew into a deeper, more trusting love.... but destiny flung them to opposite sides of the globe. Nations were swept by the tides of war, conspiring to keep the lovers apart. But they had already succumbed to the waves of love- and would defy fate, fear or fury to be united once more!