Love and Death play an eternal game, selecting different players throughout time. Love never wins. Until now? Henry is a white orphan, the ward of a wealthy family who dreams of playing the bass professionally. Flora is a black jazz singer and aviator, and dreams of owning her own plane and flying it around the world. They are both pawns in the game of Love and Death, chosen at birth. They fall in love, but will they both choose each other despite all the obstacles in their lives? If they don't choose each other, Death will claim Flora's life.

I'm giving this four stars because of uniqueness of the plot, the diversity of the characters, and the loveliness of the prose. That said, there was so much going on here that I felt I needed a few hundred more pages to really sink into everything. Love and Death were my favorite characters, but I didn't quite buy the love between Henry and Flora (despite the story resting on this premise).