Gates, Penn
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On a snowy night in 1914, Hugh Von Kessel meets a lovely blonde girl at a dance. Her aloof beauty reminds him of a valkyrie in one of his German mothe
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r’s Wagnerian operas. Millie Holtz is likewise impressed by the handsome young man with the slightly European manners and aura of glamor. Hugh’s older brother, Nicholas, cautions him to stop treating women as playthings, but Hugh wants the valkyrie and pursues her relentlessly. Millie has always lived according to the rules—until she met Hugh—and she’ll bear the consequences of that lapse in judgement for a lifetime.
Two brothers and the woman they both desire will become hopelessly entangled in a secret love spanning decades—through World War I, the Great Depression, and the Second World War—to a place where the impossible can happen.
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