Emma Woodhouse is perfectly content with her life and sees no need for either love or marriage. Nothing, however, delights her more than interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protegee Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.
When fifteen-year-old Rose visits Belgium, she can feel the deep scars left there by the Great War. But when she hears the sound of marching late at night, she does not expect to see the ghosts of the past from her window . and one boy in particular.
Rose follows her old and muddled Great-Aunt Cosy into the London Underground and finds herself travelling back in time to war-torn London. Here, she witnesses the impact of the impending Blitz on Cosy's life. Tragedy will follow - unless Rose can figure out how to protect the future ...