Böcker av Rose Warner

Having fallen pregnant and married a man she didn't love, only to miscarry and lose her husband in an accident, young working-class widow NELL POTTER is starting over. In Hazelbury, she meets injured squadron leader Max, and the two share a kiss at the summer fete. But when a new group of injured servicemen arrive at the village hospital, Nell is horrified to discover amongst them her late husband's brother, who reveals her secrets to all. Will Victoria and Beatrice stick by her when they learn the truth? And will Max forgive her for lying to him?

After losing her fiance and brothers in the Great War, and with her family's wealth gone, Beatrice must make her own living against her mother's disapproval. Fiercely independent, she dreams of becoming a headmistress one day. When a nearby country house is requisitioned for use as a military hospital, she volunteers to help and works alongside David, the village doctor. Drawn to him, Beatrice has loved and lost once and her heart is buried with her fiance in France. Yet when she kisses him at the Christmas party, she knows she has already fallen for him. Can Beatrice still achieve her career dreams as a doctor's wife? And when David is called up to serve in the EMS in London, is she set to lose another fiance?

In summer 1939, Canadian-born teacher, Victoria McKaye, takes up a new position at a London school, only to shorty coordinate the evacuation to the countryside with standoffish spinster Beatrice and young, quiet Nell. Arriving in the village of Hazelbury, Victoria sorts out billets for her young charges and meets Louis Granger, a naval officer. But why isn't a sailor based nearer the sea, and why is he meeting with foreign men in secret locales? When she confronts Louis, he admits he''s working for the British government and recruits Victoria to help. Drawn into a clandestine world, everything comes to a head when her work helps foil a Nazi plot. Yet the military police have never heard of Louis - can she trust the man she''s grown to love?