I absolutely loved this book! Lana is a young woman estranged from her father and living on a different Hawaiian island from her. She rushes to her father when he tells her he is very sick. She longs to reach him in time to tell him she forgives him, but he dies before she arrives. The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 happens the next day. Her father has a home in the hills of Hawaii which he has built for survival purposes when talk of possible war breaking out.  She takes two daughters of German parents and two of Japanese descent with her. She writes with compassion, descriptive, and love of the mystery and magic of the islands. It is a beautiful story even though the internment of German and Japanese citizens is depicted.  She writes about surviving terrible times. She and an Army major fall in love. Even though there is a mixure of characters who are very different, she writes about their many differences with respect and love and who constitute a family.  I will keep this book and read it many times. I highly recommend it to lovers of historical fiction, romance, and family.