Beautiful, impetuous Denise Dugal, shy almond-eyed Liane Wang, gentle Irish Nora Murphy, and dark fiery Jo Blaine all shared one thing: the courage and passion of the legendary McLeod sisters, who had forged a future on the world's greatest frontiers. Now, as Europe plunged into World War I, this new generation of women seized their priceless legacy and carried it to the battlefields of France. Here in a rough field hospital behind enemy lines, they found: Peter Carey: the British doctor who hid his passion for Denise behind his gift of healing... Steve Long: the wounded soldier who gave Liane his heart before he could even see. . . Mule: the gentle American who taught Nora to trust again... Kurt Kellerman: the German soldier Jo vowed to posses even if it meant betraying her own country Like the McLeod sisters before them, they knew that winning at love was the greatest victory.