Waltz of the Innocents paints a bittersweet life on a huge canvas as Marsh Bretz blunders through the social movements of the late Twentieth Century. The shrewd country boy with deep German-speaking Russian background yearns for a wife and children bound together by love, tolerance and understanding. Yet, Marsh likes strong empowered women, his equals. Disregarding conflicts with his lovers´ and wives´ career and personal priorities, he stubbornly remains a tolerant man in an intolerant time, a doubter in the land of the true believer. And yet his chaotic personal life and thwarted goals has a strange vitalizing effect. Too frugal to buy clothes that fit, the good-hearted man uses every opportunity, every good gamble, to turn life´s losses into unexpected gains. Bailing a friend out of trouble, Marsh begins his first company-and then another. One way or other, the opportunist turns flaming wrecks into marshmallow roasts. Feminism, litigation, environmental disaster--all deal him setbacks. Yet if life flattens Marsh to the wall, Marsh takes the wall in compensation, and makes a good profit. Alternately amusing in his bumbling naiveté and sardonic humor, gentle and thoughtful in his ill-planned affairs and marriages, and grim and cold-blooded when antagonized--Marsh reflects the moral turmoil of the times. His quest for his family and his values carries him from well-to-do life in Montreal, Denver and Saint Petersburg to the lonely starkness of the Canadian Arctic, the gold mining gulags of Siberia and to his family´s farm on the lower Volga. Business, politics and personal life blur. Yet his stubborn quest will never end until the goal is achieved.
A soldier finds letters on a battlefield in France and falls in love with the woman who wrote them. Trapped in no man's land in the final days of World War I, Private Ransom James MacTavish consoles a dying Lietenant by reading to him the letters of his fiancee, Elizabeth, a high born Charleston Lady. When the officer dies, Ransom is stranded alone between the American and German trenches. His sole comfort is reading the elegant letters from the officer's fiancee. Although he is penniless, Ransom comes home determined to win Elizabeth's heart but soon discovers he must compete with a wealthy suitor while evading a lustful widow and a sheriff with a tendency to shoot people. Ransom's only hope is the bond of a spirited pregnant teenager and the eccentric wisdom of a crusty Civil War veteran.
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