Argentina, 1951. For most people, World War Two has been over for six years, but it's still a brutal reality for Leni Mayer, brought to Buenos Aires by a Nazi who took her captive in 1940 and never let her go. Lonely and despairing, she longs for a chance to return to England and be herself again.Butterfly enthusiast Raymond Varela and his eight-year-old son Anton have come to Patagonia in an effort to start life afresh after the losses of the war years. Haunted by the death of his...

Oregon, 1925. Like his semi-reclusive parents, ten-year-old George Graham doesn’t have friends, preferring to live inside the safe and predictable world of his books. This all changes when his classmate Louise Pearson, new to town, befriends him. Curious about his family’s secrets, and with plenty of her own, the pair become an irrepressible, inseparable team, bantering and bickering their way through what turns out to be an unforgettable summer.Louise's quick brain puts together t...

Oregon, 1927: Twelve-year-old Louise Pearson wants to fly. Her mother doesn't think it's ladylike; her best friend George Graham doesn't think it's safe.But Louise doesn't feel safe on the ground. Her mother seems to be holding her at arm's length. George is preoccupied with a religious identity crisis. Worst of all, terrifying anonymous notes keep popping up where Louise least expects them.Charles Lindbergh's celebrated crossing of the Atlantic provides some much-needed di...

Argentina, 1951. For most people, World War Two has been over for six years, but it’s still a brutal reality for Leni Mayer, brought to Buenos Aires by a Nazi who took her captive in 1940 and never let her go. Lonely and despairing, she longs for a chance to return to England and be herself again.Butterfly enthusiast Raymond Varela and his eight-year-old son Anton have come to Patagonia in an effort to start life afresh after the losses of the war years. Haunted by...

Alice Rothmann has been content with her quiet, ordinary life in Oxford with her quiet, ordinary husband. But when he dies suddenly, she finds herself adrift and lonely, and before she knows it she's deeply attracted to her neighbour, George Graham.There's only one hitch: George is married to Alice's best friend.Publisher's Note: This is a standalone companion novella to The War in Our Hearts and does contain a major spoiler for The War in Our Hearts*. It ...

France, 1916: Estelle Graham faces a nightmare. Expecting to be met by her beloved husband and their newly-adopted daughter, she instead finds him gravely injured and unconscious in a casualty clearing station. Taking solace in his journals and letters, she fights for his care—and his life.In a farmhouse near the Somme, Captain Jamie Graham is forever changed when he meets young Aveline Perrault. Damaged by the cold, cruel world around them—made even colder by the war—the pair form...

Oregon, 1931: George Graham and Louise Pearson are seventeen. He's heading to seminary and she's a newly licenced commercial pilot. She's more in love with him than ever. He still hasn't noticed.Then a new boarder comes to live at the Grahams' boarding house. Velma is beautiful and manipulative and determined to have the virtuous George no matter what it takes, ripping George and Louise apart, sending the friends in very different directions than either of them had planned.

Brought from Minnesota to Oregon as a mail-order bride, the new Mrs. Pearson has to face her husband's hostile family and find joy where she can.