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The truths of the past are often the hardest to face.
When Grace Stewart’s fiancé Stephen leaves Halifax in 1937 to pursue hisdream of becoming an archaeologist in Greece, neither of them expect that warwill soon engulf the world, keeping them apart for nearly ten years. As Stephengets caught up in the resistance movement on the island of Crete, Graceimmerses herself in the war effort at home, held up by her faith and prayingfor his safe return.
Though her prayers are eventually answered and she and Stephen arefinally reunited, he is never able to speak of the things he saw in Greece. Afterhis sudden death in 1967, however, Grace discovers among his effects thejournal he kept during that dark time… a journal which allows her to, at longlast, piece together the unimaginable story of the man she thought she knew.