A secret love that will haunt a family for ever
England 1918. Lady Helen believes her parents when they say she
will never find a better husband than Richard, but when he returns
to the Front, she begins to wonder just who it is she has married.
His letters home are cold and distant Â- and Helen realises that she
has made a terrible mistake. Then Oliver Donovan enters her life and
they begin an affair that leaves Helen pregnant and alone Â- she is
forced to surrender her precious baby.
Over twenty years pass and a second war is ravaging Europe, but
that is not the only echo of the past to haunt the present. Laura
Drummond is caught in a tragic love affair of her own and when she
is forced to leave London during the Blitz, she turns to the mother
she never knew.
Mary Nichols has spent much of her life in East Anglia and often
sets her novels in that area. She has written numerous short stories,
historical romances and family sagas, as well as a biography of her grandmother.
www. marynichols. co. uk
