The Bordeaux Journal

Fortunately long-term memory loss when there is no physical trauma is uncommon. When it does occur it is often the result of unspeakable horrors such as the inhumanity of war. The mind constructs a solid wall around those and other events to permit its owner to function. Unfortunately if the wall ever crumbles or is removed too quickly the protected persons only predictable escape from those memories is self-destruction. When Tildi Masonof Carmel California finds a mysterious journal in France that suggests her father Captain Charles Mason reported missing in Viet Nam 25 years earlier might be alive she must find him. The Bordeaux Journal traces her search for him and the truth. She is plagued by the knowledge that if she does find him and he remembers her it may kill him.