The World in the EveningAt a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. There he begins to retrace the steps that have brought him to this crisis. He is reminded of his own betrayals and weaknesses. But most of all, the memory of his lost love, Elizabeth Rydal, haunts him. Can he forgive his wife, and most importantly, himself?

Her twenty-something roommates give up their party-girl ways and panic

But the Eisenhower years are ending

driven by an unquenchable desire to free his people from the European invaders of the Holy Land

the first draft of her work

he is separated from the rest of his family

Someone is getting dangerously close

'A master of her craft

Someone else is looking for her

But before long they find themselves at odds not just with one another

Eleven-year-old Isabelle hasn't spoken in nine months

the ministry's mighty dragon automaton

and Marlowe