Dorset, 1936: nine years after the end of . The three children, Nicole, Lily and Thomas Kingson, live in an uncertain world as war looms over the country and their family. Nicole is haunted by recurring nightmares of the tragic accident in France; and her desire to escape the past could rip the family apart forever. Lily is given an opportunity her mother never had, but war threatens to disrupt her life irretrievably. Will she be able to stand up to her Uncle Theodore Fox and save Home Farm for the family? Thomas is twelve and thinks he wants a life of adventure; will he come of age as war rages? This gripping epic set in World War II sweeps from the picturesque Dorset village of Ashcombe to the desert campaign of North Africa and the tyranny of occupied France and Italy. It will have you hooked from the first to last page.