"Oscar is an Englishman with a mysterious past who presides over a sprawling mansion on Long Island's North Shore filled with glamorous guests. He longs for Christine, his great love, who sailed to Shanghai after the war and disappeared into murky, moral depths. And now Marilyn, a photographer who spent the 1940s in England, has moved into Oscar's mansion to work on a book of wartime photography, stirring up dark memories."--Cover flap.