Even war cannot destroy true love ... A conflict of the heart drives the first historical romance in the captivating Claybourne Trilogy. The White Featheris a poignant, romantic, and sometimes tragic novel set on the battlefields of World War I France and in a small village named Claybourne-on-Coln. This engaging novel presents the reader with unforgettable characters, courageous and cowardly, generous and self-serving. Mary Christian Payne takes you to a quaint English village where Lord Christopher Claybourne lives with his new American wife, Eleanor, and his mother, the Dowager Lady Cynthia, in his opulent family estate. At the other end of the village lives Lily Barton in a charming cottage with her widowed mother, Elisabeth. Their worlds meet at the beginning of World War I. This first novel in the Claybourne Trilogy takes the reader on an adventurous journey, fraught with peril, both at home and abroad. A story of selfishness, devotion and loyalty, culminating in a perplexing mystery,The White Featherwill leave you wanting more of the Claybourne family. This novel is a stand-alone book to be enjoyed by itself or followed up with books two and three in the trilogy, The White Butterfly and White Cliffs of Dover.