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Germany, 1945. Klara Janowska and her daughter, Alicja, have walked for weeks to get to Graufeld Displaced Persons camp. In the cramped, dirty, dangerous conditions they, along with 3,200 others, are the lucky ones. They have survived and will do anything to find a way back home. But when Klara recognises a man in the camp from her past, a deadly game of cat and mouse begins. He knows exactly what she did during the war to save her daughter. She knows his real identity. What will be the price of silence? And will either make it out of the camp alive?

Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage and betrayal, from the internationally best-selling author of The Survivors. 1953, the South of France. The fragile peace between the West and Soviet Russia hangs on a knife edge. And one family has been torn apart by secrets and conflicting allegiances. Eloïse Caussade is a courageous young Frenchwoman, raised on a bull farm near Arles in the Camargue. She idolises her older brother, André, and when he leaves to become an Intelligence Officer working for the CIA in Paris to help protect France, she soon follows him.

1948, Berlin. World War II has ended and there is supposed to be peace; but Russian troops have closed all access to the city. Roads, railway lines and waterways are blocked and two million people are trapped, relying on airlifts of food, water and medicine to survive. The sharp eyes of the Russian state police watch everything. Anna and Ingrid are both searching for answers - and revenge - in the messy aftermath of war. Both are living in the shadows of a city where the line between right and wrong has become dangerously blurred. But they cannot give up in the search for a lost child.

Parigi, 1930. Romaine Duchamps si ritrova da sola in una stanza, con il padre morente riverso sul pavimento, e le mani sporche del suo sangue. Non ha idea di cosa sia successo. Saranno le bugie della sorella gemella Florence, poco dopo, a salvarla dalle accuse e dalla ghigliottina. Otto anni più tardi, Romaine, passionale e irrequieta, vive una vita di viaggi e amori tra le spiagge mediterranee della Spagna e il freddo Atlantico, in un'Europa sempre più scossa dai venti di guerra.

Could you kill someone? Someone you love? Paris, 1938. This is the story of twin sisters divided by fierce loyalties and by a terrible secret. The drums of war are beating, and France is poised, ready to fall. One sister is an aviatrix, the other is a socialite, and they both have something to prove and something to hide. Discover a brilliant story of love, danger, courage...and betrayal.

Francia, 1953. Tutto è cambiato per Eloïse da quando la guerra è finita. Come tutto è cambiato per la Francia: la fine del conflitto mondiale non ha portato, infatti, la pace sperata, ma un nuovo assetto mondiale basato sul sospetto, la paura e la delazione. È la Guerra Fredda, che ha raggiunto ormai anche la remota Camargue, terra di cavalli selvaggi e grandi spazi, dove Eloïse è cresciuta con la sua famiglia.

1912, London. Jessie Kenton hears her young brother, Georgie, scream in the middle of the night and wakes up the next morning to find him gone. Her parents never speak of him again. 1932. Twenty years later, Jessie is haunted by the same nightmare. Her other brother, Timothy, has inexplicably vanished from her parents' home. Wracked by guilt because of her failure to ever find Georgie, and convinced that the two events must be related, she sets out on a quest to find Timothy. She plunges into a mysterious world of seances and mystics, nebulous clues and Egyptian artifacts.