The Burns and McIntyre families had been through one World War and a Great Depression. Now they faced another global conflict. Roses of Winter recreates the experience of living through the world's greatest conflict as the characters seek to survive and imagine a future. Follow the lives of the women as they strive to keep their families together while their men sail into hazardous scenes of action. Share with them the conflicting moods and emotions brought by living with constant danger. Discover along with them that even in the winter of wartime flowers may yet bloom.