The Secret - Hardcover

Secrets are slowly unravelled after Jaime Gray is killed in an air-raid in London in 1944, forcing his wife Alisa and their two children to move to the Grays' Northumbrian mansion to live with Jaime's brother Cal.

It is 1944 in London. A young man is killed in an air-raid, leaving a wife and two children - and a secret. Ailsa, Margaret and Luke are persuaded by Jamie's brother Cal to return to the North East, to the town he came from. Despite their grief and bitterness, they find a new life there: the children make firm friends with Danny and Shannon Logan, whose father Keir drinks and whose Mam, Jessie, has a secret of her own. Against their families' better judgement, the young people form a bond which sustains them in hard times, and which will ultimately prove unbreakable...