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Connected through time to hergreatgrandmother by a shared English countryside home anAmericannurse tries to piece together herfamilystangled history in this new historical novel from the acclaimed author of At Summers End

England 2014 Audrey Collinsknows only two things about her beloved grandmotherspast She was born into nobilityand she immigratedto America at seventeen years old So when Audrey inheritshergrans home in North Yorkshire she arrives expecting a sprawling country estate fit for lords and ladies Instead she finds an abandoned stone cottage perfectly preserved as Gran left it when she fled in 1941ration book and alland beginsto uncover what secrets her family has been keeping

France 1915 Lady Emilie Dawes is working as a nurse on the Western Front grateful to have escaped the restraints of herrestrictive privilegedhome lifeBut theindependence she fought hard to earn issuddenlyjeopardized when a familiar man shows up in one of her hospital bedsFacing him means facing her past and the decisions she had made in fear As the war rages around her Emilie realizes she cannot continue running from who she is until she decides who she trulywants to be

Over a hundred years apart Audrey and Emilie each struggle to find purpose love and a place to call home in this enchanting family saga celebrating the courage of underestimated womenand the power a secret can hold across generations