The first time Jessie laid eyes on Tommy McBride was in July 1947, when they were still at school – and long before she knew anything about heartbreak or pain.
Then she was the sheltered, dreamy minister’s daughter, determined to take a bite out of life. And he was the fighter from the wrong side of the tracks, hell-bent on proving himself to the world. They had nothing in common, separate destinies.
But in 1947 the world was about to move into new decades of turbulence and change – and it was only the fighters and the dreamers who would make it theirs…
