Love and Death love to play games, even though Love has never won. Romeo & Juliet, Antony & Cleopatra, Helen of Troy & Paris, and now Henry & Flora. She is an African American girl who dreams of being the next Amelia Earhart. He is an adoptive son to a wealthy family during the great depression. Can these two people who are so different really beat the Game of Love and Death?Publisher description:
In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.