Bess Crawford #1
William Morrow
September 2009
On Sale: September 1, 2009
Featuring: Jonathan Graham; Bess Crawford
336 pages ISBN: 0061791768 EAN: 9780061791765 Hardcover Add to Wish List
From the brilliantly imaginative New
York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes an
unforgettable new character in an exceptional new series
England, 1916. Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far
different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British
gentlewoman. Growing up in India, she learned the importance
of responsibility, honor, and duty from her officer father.
At the outbreak of World War I, she followed in his
footsteps and volunteered for the nursing corps, serving
from the battlefields of France to the doomed hospital ship
Britannic.
On one voyage, Bess grows fond of
the young, gravely wounded Lieutenant Arthur Graham.
Something rests heavily on his conscience, and to give him a
little peace as he dies, she promises to deliver a message
to his brother. It is some months before she can carry out
this duty, and when she's next in England, she herself is
recovering from a wound.
When Bess arrives at the
Graham house in Kent, Jonathan Graham listens to his
brother's last wishes with surprising indifference. Neither
his mother nor his brother Timothy seems to think it has any
significance. Unsettled by this, Bess is about to take her
leave when sudden tragedy envelops her. She quickly
discovers that fulfilling this duty to the dead has thrust
her into a maelstrom of intrigue and murder that will
endanger her own life and test her courage as not even war has.
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