A woman's future is determined by fate and choice in a gripping WWII
novel about danger, triumph, and second chances by the New York Times
bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Tuscan Child.
London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks's world crumbles around her.
Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her
home, a ruin of rubble and ash. Josie's beloved tearoom boss has been
killed, and Josie herself is injured, with nothing left and nowhere to
go.
Evacuated to the English countryside, Josie ends up at the estate of the
aristocratic Miss Harcourt, a reluctant host to the survivors of the
Blitz. Awed as she is by the magnificent landscape, Josie sees
opportunity. Josie convinces Miss Harcourt to let her open a humble tea
shop, seeing it as a chance for everyone to begin again. When Josie
meets Mike Johnson, a handsome Canadian pilot stationed at a neighboring
bomber base, a growing intimacy brings her an inner peace she's never
felt before. Then Stan returns from the war.
Now a threat looms larger than anyone imagined. And a dangerous secret
is about to upend Josie's life again. Her newfound courage will be put
to the test if she is to emerge, like a survivor, triumphant.
