London 1938. Bookseller Gertie Bingham is facing difficult times having just lost her beloved husban..

Naples 1943. Luisa Giordano has faced many losses: her mother to a deadly illness the man she loved ..

England 1903. Giles the Earl of Stainton has fled from his stifling duties to resume his research in..

John Pearce faces a court martial but will a cowardly chief witness stand up to questioning? With th..

York 1988. Dr Tom Frith is beginning his first term as a tutor at the University of Eboracum. After ..

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Jersey 1943. Once a warm and neighbourly community now German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets im..

Glasgow 1846. Rumours of improper behaviour spread like wildfire on the respectable Blythswood Squar..

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