Tomorrow Is Forever — Gwen Bristow

Elizabeth is devastated when she receives a telegram from the War Office saying her husband has been killed. Desperate for a clean break, she moves to California and rebuilds her life. She marries a man destined for success in the burgeoning motion picture industry, starts a family, and is happy with her new life -- but then she comes face to face with her first husband...

His eyes were dark with pain
and as Elizabeth Herlong looked at the guest her husband had brought home to dinner, she felt a tremor of recognition. But how could she have known this bearded stranger, able to walk only with the aird of a cane? Where in her sheltered existence as the wife of a Hollywood producer and the mother of three children, could she have met this refugee writer from Germany? And why was she so sure that he, more than anyone else, could understand the uncertainties that racked her soul?