Naomi Bigelow

The Pheasant's Daughter Naomi Bigelow

Her mother sent her to Europe to continue art studies with a friend from college days. Why did the villagers avoid the beautiful and talented Bernadette Orlay, even as they puzzled about why the younger American woman dared to study with her? And why did Julie Taylor stay in Belgium when the German invasion was imminent? While Julie agonizes about the lack of communication from her mother, the trap opens wide for Julie. In the darkest days of WWII, the garden created for Julie's mother before the Great War becomes a place of incredible beauty and exquisite danger, for her and for the bitter German Kommandant, Capt. Stephen Holtz. He is determined to carry out his duty; his reward for doing so may be his last action. Canadian forces, little school children, and a faithful Belgian sheepdog deeply affect the lives of several families in St. Martin.