A heart-breaking love story set in Cold War Berlin by the author of THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer living a very private life in Maine. Until, one wintry morning, his solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a package postmarked Berlin. But what is more unsettling is the name accompanying the return address on the package: Petra Dussmann. For she is the woman with whom Thomas had an intense love affair twenty-five years before in a divided Berlin and suddenly Thomas is forced to grapple with a past he has always kept hidden.