Bess Crawford #9
William Morrow
October 2017
On Sale: September 26, 2017
Featuring: James Travis; Captain Alan Travis; Bess Crawford
400 pages ISBN: 0062678787 EAN: 9780062678782 Kindle: B01N1YAWTU Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd comes a haunting tale that explores the impact of World War I on all who witnessed itโofficers, soldiers, doctors, and battlefield nurses like Bess Crawford.
Though the Great War is nearing its end, the fighting rages on. While waiting for transport back to her post, Bess Crawford meets Captain Alan Travis from the island of Barbados. Later, when heโs brought into her forward aid station disoriented from a head wound, Bess is alarmed that he believes his distant English cousin, Lieutenant James Travis, shot him. Then the Captain is brought back to the aid station with a more severe wound, once more angrily denouncing the Lieutenant as a killer. But when it appears that James Travis couldnโt have shot him, the Captainโs sanity is questioned. Still, Bess wonders how such an experienced officer could be so wrong.
On leave in England, Bess finds the Captain strapped to his bed in a clinic for brain injuries. Horrified by his condition, Bess and Sergeant Major Simon Brandon travel to James Travisโs home in Suffolk, to learn more about the baffling relationship between these two cousins.
Her search will lead this smart, capable, and compassionate young woman into unexpected danger, and bring her face to face with the visible and invisible wounds of war that not even the much-longed for peace can heal.
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