Thirza Caruthers has never forgotten the wild rivers of the Dordogne in France. As a child, she nearly drowned there. Now, in a debt that stretches back decades, she must repay the woman who saved her, by going to nurse the elderly Berenice Rousseau at her beautiful stone manor house in the beautiful French countryside. Berenice is drifting in and out of consciousness but the one constant is her desire to see her missing daughter again, Sophie, who ran away as a child. Can Thirza help her? But with the Spanish Civil War erupting just across the border, fascism taking hold in Italy and Germany and her stepdaughter volunteering on the front line - can Thirza really help Berenice solve the mysteries of the past and find out what happened to the elusive Sophie? Gold title - A gripping drama of family secrets and mystery, set against the unsettled backdrop of France and Europe in the 1930s - Dinah Jefferies is the number 1 bestselling author of The Tea-Planter's Wife and has been selected for the Richard and Judy Book Club three times - Major marketing campaign to build Dinah's profile and readership even further after The Night Train to Marrakech - Comps: The Murders at Fleat House by Lucinda Riley (PB 81,357), Wait for Me by Santa Montefiore (PB 36,455), Homecoming by Kate Morton (PB 106,573). Competition: Beautiful Riva; Child of the Ruins; The Hidden Girl; Wait for Me; In the Moonlight; The Dream House; Sisters Under the Rising Sun; Shadows in the Moonlight;. Lucinda Riley;Gill Paul;Rachel Hore;Santa Montefiore;Heather Morris;christy lefteri; kate furnivall; tracy rees; barbara; erskine.