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This incredible debut historical novel - in the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Jennifer Robson - tells the fascinating story of a young mother who flees her home on the rocky cliffs of Cornwall and the daughter who finds her way back, seeking answers.Cornwall, 1940. Back in England after the harrowing evacuation at Dunkirk, WWII Red Cross nurse Anna Trenowyth is shocked to learn her adoptive parents Graham and Prue Handley have been killed in an air raid. She desperately needs their advice as she's been assigned to the military hospital that has set up camp inside her biological mother's childhood home - Nanreath Hall. Anna was just six-years-old when her mother, Lady Katherine Trenowyth, died. All she has left are vague memories that tease her with clues she can't unravel.



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Alix Rickloff

Critically acclaimed author of historical fiction and paranormal romance, ALIX RICKLOFF's family tree includes a knight who fought during the Wars of the Roses (his brass rubbing hangs in her dining room) , and a soldier who sided with Charles I during the English Civil War (hence the family's hasty emigration to America) . Her latest novel, THE WAY TO LONDON (William Morrow) , releases in September of 2017.



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