Nightingale Songs

In Nightingale Songs, the intrusion by memories of an ill-starred love affair from the Greatest Generation on the lives of a later generation suggests love can transcend time and space. Cate Bennis's love life could use help, but she never expected it to come from beyond. Given a dating history that makes Bridget Jones's look good, the American businesswoman is not surprised when her romantic rendezvous in London falls apart. She is surprised to find herself celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of VE Day with an American veteran struck by her resemblance to Kitty Pemberton, an English aristocrat he knew during the war years. What worries Cate is that she not only hears about people from the 1940s, she sees them. Why is she getting flashes from the past? Suspecting the answer lies with the deceased Kitty Pemberton, Cate sets out to learn more about the woman who defied convention and her family's wishes to sing for World War II servicemen. Is Kitty behind Cate's effort to revive a fifty-year-old romance? And, is that all Kitty has in mind? When Cate enlists the help of a handsome coworker in her efforts, indications are that Kitty may have bigger plans for Cate. Nightingale Songs takes a light-hearted look at a skeptical heroine coming to accept that her future is being directed by a benign force she cannot, and may not want to, control.