The conflict between two good friends in England, over the favours of a beautiful woman, continues on the far side of the world in Australia. One becomes a jackaroo, a beginner in the cattle industry ─ the other, his mortal enemy. Llewellyn's boss is a woman, and Ivan marries the girl they fought over. Lew has accepted his friend's victory, but Ivan does not believe him.
Devastated when her husband dies in a car accident, Madeline Goode moves back in with her parents with her two year old son and attempts to put the pieces of her life back together. But she didn’t plan on meeting Jake Hart, the NBA star that she keeps bumping into at her new job for the Racers. And she certainly didn’t plan on learning that her husband's death was not the accident it seemed.
When Penny first meets Derek at a bar in Scotland, she doesn't think much of it. She's only in town for the night and quickly on her way back to London. But things between them pick up and she finds an unexpected source of help in him when problems with her mother arise.
This is the story of America on August 12, 1941, four months before Pearl Harbor. Isolationism was still strong, FDR was hammering out the Atlantic Charter with Churchill (to the fury of America Firsters), the Japanese were ready to kick off a war, most Americans were more interested in baseball and radio shows than in a distant conflict, and Congress decided to keep the draft - by one vote.
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