The blazing saga of Europe caught between two world wars...and a family redeemed from pride and sin by their passionate humanity.RUBIN - who defied his upper-class English rank to love a woman his family called whore.MAGDA - lifted from the nightworld of Bucharest and Paris by a man she was driven to betray.JEANETTE - fated to relive her mother's sins as the wife of one man, mistress to his brother.JEAN-PAUL - who could never give his own name to Jeanette, or to the child of their love.