Through Love & War, Books 1-5

Step back in time through the trials and triumphs of wartime Britain and Belgium with these five captivating and moving sagas of family, courage, and secrets.

In this 5-book box set:

My Love, My Land
1914. As the Germans sweep into Belgium, a spinster dressmaker, a defiant young woman and a hardy farmwife flee the burning streets of Dinant and take shelter in a hillside cave above the Meuse. For four long years they endure hunger and fear, the dread of soldiers at the door, and the grief of loved ones who never come home. And as the quiet village of St Louis les Bois becomes a hidden hub of the Belgian Resistance, three strangers will find themselves bound by a dangerous secret, and discover a courage they never knew they possessed.

Who Was Sylvia?
1939. Kit grew up adoring her dazzlingly beautiful sister Sylvia, who everyone loved. But on the brink of World War Two, Sylvia vanished without a word, leaving her family behind. Years later, as Kit serves in the WAAF and war rages across Britain, she begins to piece together the fragments of the life her sister hid from them all: the letters, the lovers, and the truth that drove her away. The closer Kit gets, the more she fears the woman she adored may have been someone she never truly knew at all.

The Rose Bowl
1913. At ten years old, hopeless romantic Thaddeus is sent into service at the Big House, in rural Suffolk. Among the glasshouses and walled gardens, he tends the roses, learns their names, and dreams of a garden of his own. There he loses his heart to Lady Isobel, mistress of the house — but a boy of his station could only love from afar. When the Great War comes, Thaddeus's world is shattered. Through love and war, one humble gardener will find his peace among the roses, and learn that the most beautiful things are often the slowest to bloom.

Echoes and Shadows
1893. Lizzie, a spirited farm girl in the Cambridgeshire Fens, has her whole life before her until the day she uncovers a buried family secret. Eighty years before, her great-grandmother Bessie Hinton was hanged for her part in the Ely Bread Riots, and the shame has shadowed the Hintons ever since. Lizzie’s life takes her from the Fens to the stages of London, from humble farm girl to woman of high society. But Bessie's shadow follows her every step. And when history threatens to repeat itself, everything the Hintons believed about their past may finally come undone.

Miss Gathercole's Girls
1918. Cassie Marlow was born in genteel poverty in London, with a mother quite determined that her clever daughter would one day amount to something more. For years, all her hopes have been pinned on Girton College at Cambridge, and a world that’s beginning to open up for women. But when her father dies and a shocking deceit comes to light, Cassie’s Cambridge dream is shattered overnight. With no money and no prospects, she boards the train north to Liverpool and to the formidable Emilia Gathercole’s academy. It’s not the life that Cassie dreamed of, but it might just lead her to where she has always belonged.