Losing men comes naturally to Violet Iverson, so when a troop of American soldiers shows up in her tiny sugarcane town, she knows to keep her distance. Still recovering from her husband’s disappearance two years ago under mysterious circumstances, Violet and her daughter Ella are just starting to piece their lives back together. There were no leads surrounding the case, only his car, found parked at the edge of a cliff with a small patch of blood nearby. Violet has the sense that Ella knows something, but her intuition and own distraction are telling her to give her daughter her space. And Violet s hands are full enough. For every one thing Ella won’t say, the town’s gossip mills make up three: Herman worked for the Japanese, a moonshine deal went sour, he was gambling on cock fights, or worst of all, working for the CIA. Violet can’t help but wonder if she knew her husband after all. As tensions on the island increase and a new war-time normal takes shap