In France during World War II, René Artois runs a small café where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily, ignorant of one another's true identity or presence, exasperating René.
Tom Hammond is surprised when his wife announces that she has written a romance novel, and even more surprised when the book becomes a red-hot smash hit. The series tells of the trouble that Alice and Tom have trying to come to terms with the shock of success and also the stress that Tom suffers when the book makes Alice famous.