This romantic suspense spy story takes place in 1997 when Beth Parsons is called to CIA headquarters and asked to identify someone from when she worked for a U.S. Army intelligence unit in Munich, Germany. When what Beth is told doesn't add up, she fears she may become a fall guy for the CIA. She escapes her CIA "babysitter" and sets off to discover why she is suddenly back in the world of espionage. Her quest takes her to Europe and then back to the U.S., and pairs her with the man who may have been responsible for her husband's death.

In the spring of 1970, during the height of the Vietnam War, four newly married young women come together at Ft. Knox, Kentucky, when their husbands go on active duty as officers in the U.S. Army. Different as these four women are, they have one thing in common: Their overwhelming fear that their husbands could be shipped out to Vietnam – and they could become war widows.