Follow Maddie, Ryan and Jake through twenty years of love, heartache and intrigue, as their lives intertwine from a sleepy town in Oklahoma, through prestigious West Point, the laidback wine country of California, and even the deadly jungles of Vietnam. Maddie and Ryan were high school and college sweethearts---destined to marry. But will West Point and his Army career tear them apart? Jake was the all-star athlete and homecoming king who became an honored coach, but can he win the love of his life? Lieutenant Ryan Richardson asked his sergeant to tell the platoon how to stay alive in the jungle. Blevins burst into gory detail about Nam's forty kinds of poisonous snakes. "Y'all get bit bah 'Two-step Car-lee, '" he warned. "Y'all kin bend ovah an kiss yer ass goobahh " A few weeks later, a Krait slithered into Sergeant Blevins's bed. His death certificate just said, "Killed in action." English roads are narrow, winding and often wet. It took the emergency workers half an hour to cut his bloody body out of the mangled car. "This chap may not make it," said the doctor.