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1940. London is facing the full wrath of the blitz and amid the chaos Sheila Phipps is orphaned after a devastating air raid claims her family and her home. She is evacuated to Bletchley to live with her aunt Constance, where she forms an unlikely friendship with Prudence Le Strange, who is working in the codebreaking unit at Bletchley. As their friendship grows stronger, the war subjects Sheila and Prue to fresh tragedies as, one by one, those they love are called away to distant battlefields, only to join the growing ranks of the missing, the captured and the dead. As the war escalates, the two friends find their lives increasingly complicated not only by the secrets of wartime but by those the conflict has dredged up from the past.

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Russia, November 1920. Lydia Kirilov, an orphaned child refugee from the Russian Civil War, is separated from her family and the only key to her identity is the opulent jewel concealed in her petticoat - the famed Kirilov Star. An English diplomat rescues her and brings her to live in England as part of his family. But as Lydia grows up, she yearns to know the truth about her heritage and to find a home.

Summer, 1939. The de Lacey family of Nayton Manor believe they are ready for the changes the war will bring. But for all at Nayton, war becomes a time of risk and danger, of secrets and betrayal, and of finding love in the most unexpected places.

Norfolk, 1920. Barbara Bosgrove has lived in the market town of Melsham all her life. George Kennett, a fiercely ambitious man, has had his eye on Barbara. He begins a slow and steady courtship and Barbara is eventually won over, agreeing to marry a man she believes she can rely on. Little does she realise how wrong she can be.

One day during the London Blitz, Julie Monday is caught in the chaos of a direct hit. Alive but suffering severe memory loss, Julie must decide to either make a new life for herself, or struggle to recover the pieces of a shattered identity.

Polish Pilot Jan Grabowski and British teacher Louise Fairhurst have very different experiences of war, until a chance meeting brings them together

"For one long, hot summer Frances and Marcus had meant everything to each other. And then he betrayed her by marrying someone else. At seventeen, Frances had possessed an inner fire, a joy of life. Now, years later, Marcus, Duke of Loscoe, is confounded by the ice-cold society hostess she has become. Having learned how to suppress her youthful dreams and desires, Frances, Countess of Carringham, can't deny she's pained to hear that Marcus is looking for a new wife to care for his motherless child. Nor can she disguise that she is still susceptible to his charm..."--Cover verso.

Lady Helen believes her parents when they say she will never find a better husband than Richard, but when he returns to the Front, she begins to wonder just who it is she has married. His letters home are cold and distant - and Helen realises that she has made a terrible mistake.