The Love I Meant

When she was twelve, Anna moved away from Brooklyn and her best friend, Johnny Donahue went to prison for murder. Nearly five years have passed as she returns to New York for her mother's second marriage: to millionaire Edward Vogel.

Learning the ways of Manhattan's elite wears Anna down, but she finds refuge in time spent with her dockworker cousin and his quiet, hardworking circle of friends.

While the war rages in Europe, another war threatens her Brooklyn friends. Reunited with a recently released Johnny, Anna must navigate her new world while negotiating the violence in her friends' lives.