The Promise Barbara Dee Emmett's intention is to pick

Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother

Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives

Is there anything that she would change if she could

One hundred eighty Englishwomen file aboard the Rajah

But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen's past

The Promise Barbara Dee Emmett's intention is to pickYoung pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio, in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking up correspondence with a childhood admirer, the recently widowed Oscar Williams. In desperation, she agrees to marry him, but when Catherine travels to Oscar's farm on Galveston Island, Texas a thousand miles from home she finds she is little prepared for the life that awaits