Forgotten Cottage

Connected through time to hergreat-grandmother by a shared English countryside home, anAmericannurse tries to piece together herfamily'stangled history in this new historical novel from the acclaimed author of At Summer's End.

England, 2014- Audrey Collinsknows only two things about her beloved grandmother'spast- She was born into nobilityand she immigratedto America at seventeen years old. So when Audrey inheritshergran's home in North Yorkshire, she arrives expecting a sprawling country estate fit for lords and ladies. Instead, she finds an abandoned stone cottage perfectly preserved as Gran left it when she fled in 1941-ration book and all-and beginsto uncover what secrets her family has been keeping.

France, 1915- Lady Emilie Dawes is working as a nurse on the Western Front, grateful to have escaped the restraints of herrestrictive, privilegedhome life.But theindependence she fought hard to earn issuddenlyjeopardized when a familiar man shows up in one of her hospital beds.Facing him means facing her past, and the decisions she had made in fear. As the war rages around her, Emilie realizes she cannot continue running from who she is until she decides who she trulywants to be.

Over a hundred years apart, Audrey and Emilie each struggle to find purpose, love, and a place to call home in this enchanting family saga celebrating the courage of underestimated women-and the power a secret can hold across generations.