Kept apart by the social classes of Liberty, Georgia, Billy Christmas and Jordan Simms meet again when Billy joins the Marines and Jordan becomes a Navy nurse
Ben Logan, stationed at Pearl Harbor, experiences the Japanese attack, and thinks of the girl he left behind, Rachel, the daughter of a Pentecostal preacher
Drafted, Chance Rinehart, a professional tennis player, and Jesse Boone, a young minister, have their story told by Maria Vitrano, a newspaper reporter sent to follow actual small town men off to war
Mike Hardin finds himself in competition with David Stone, his squadron leader, for the attentions of Leah Daniel, Mike's former tutor
In a powerful and compelling story of lost hope and second chances, A Time to Heal unfolds a drama of brutal violence and inner peace, of broken hearts and rebuilt lives. It continues the chronicles of Liberty, Georgia's residents, so captivatingly told in All the Shining Young Men, The End of the Glory, and A Silence in Heaven, all part of The Price of Liberty series.
During the chaos of World War II, a relationship develops between a British woman, Diana Marlowe, and Mark Courtney, a pilot from Georgia