The Crown of Willow Healing For twenty-two years he languished

For twenty-two years he languished in prison

Nicole chances upon an old photo of her father--lovingly inscribed

The apparent suicide of a young cadet at the Citadel leads Nick Barrett back two decades to the disappearance of a South Carolina beauty pageant queen

and surely

taught geography to Napoleon

The Crown of Willow Healing For twenty-two years he languishedAs a young girl Nora du Cayne had given up everything for love. In the Latin Quarter of Paris she had endured a tempestuous relationship and an exciting, yet crazy life that swung like a pendulum from good to bad, and back again. In her old age, she recounts a crowded and eventful life, full of trials and tribulations interspaced with happiness, and muses on what might have been if only she had led a quieter existence.