The new novel in the Country House series - Georgie Bridges married Arthur because the man she loved was already someone else's husband. Now Arthur is dying she feels her life has been a failure. Beth Rawlings, whose mother was cruelly murdered, hopes her new job will bring her contentment. And Hetty Tarleton ran away to Paris to live with her lover when she was young. She's caught in France as the Germans invade. Can tragedy, violence and despair eventually give way to happiness?