A moving story of young - and old - love.

''He looks at me now, full face, and I can see how drawn, how much older that face is - dark pits under his eyes, lines of tiredness. He''s not the warrior king I fell for eight months ago.''

Christy is under siege. Her father is dangerously near losing it, her grandmother has lost it and Christy fears she has lost her boyfriend to a peacekeeping assignment in Bosnia. In an attempt to uncover an old family secret and sort out all her relationships, she plans a train journey to the West Coast . . .