1940, Cornwall, England. Penhallow Hall shelters a handful of Land Girls, sent to the coast to avoid the horrors of London's Blitz. But the beautiful, arrogant Diana Devlin, impatient with the sleepy village and its placid residents, can't resist the temptation to stir up long-buried secrets. When a young woman's body is found lying broken on the shore, the promised safety of the Hall is shattered. Was it simply a tragic accident, or did mischief end in murder?

Author Biography

Kate Riordan is a writer and journalist. Her first two novels, The Girl in the Photograph and The Shadow Hour, are also published by Penguin. She lives in the Cotswolds, where she writes full-time.