This novel was very interesting, and provided an insight into love I hope never to experience. Like the title says it's a novel of love and obsession, and it will leave you realing towards the end of the book because of the way some of the characters behave. ( )

I was hoping for a true sequel to The Good Journey. It was not, and not nearly as good as the other book. This book is about the tumultuous relationship between Diana Bullitt Kearney, the younger sister of the heroine in Good Journey, and her husband, Lt. (later Gen.) Philip Kearney. Kearney was a soldier, in every meaning of the word, loved war, loved the military; fought for the French over seas, fought Indian wars in Oregon, lost an arm during the Mexican War, and was killed in the American Civil War. By then he and Diana were divorced - a scandalous situation in the 19th century. ( )