Bøker av Dominic Luke

Northamptonshire, April 1926.Emily lost her husband during the Great War, and now lives with her son Chadwick. Over the Easter weekend, he takes her to visit her beloved family home. But, for Emily, returning to Alleyn Dene dredges up the pain of the past.The memories soon come flooding back. Of the girl she once was, of her lost innocence, of how life used to be before that fateful night at the ball at Nethercote Hall when she was seventeen.She has kept her secret since that day, and has lived with her pain ever since.Her husband was a good man, and she is blessed that Chad has grown up to be just like his father, but Emily is still waiting for the sun.Now, after a chance meeting with a handsome bus conductor on a trip to London, Emily is finally starting to feel like the clouds might part.A prisoner of the past, she might be able to look to the future - if only she can confront the terrible truth that she has kept hidden for more than twenty years.

A CAPTIVATING WW1 SAGA OF UNWAVERING STRENGTH. My cousin has been killed in action. We grew up together. He was like a brother to me. His poor mother, my aunt Eloise, will need me now more than ever. July 1916, Clifton Park. Soft-hearted Dorothea Kaufmann returns to her family home for the memorial service of her beloved cousin, Roderick, following his untimely death in France.She yearns to be reunited with her husband Johann, who she has not seen since the war began. Dorothea must stay strong for Roderick's heavily pregnant widow, Rosa, whose unborn baby will never know its father. She fears her dear Aunt Eloise will never recover from the death of her son. Soon, tensions mount as a dark secret arises. Rosa flees Clifton, leaving Dorothea to care for her two young children. The only thing keeping Dorothea together is the thought of once again being by her darling Johann's side. But then a letter arrives. And Dorothea's life will never be the same. How much more will be taken from her? Dorothea has always worn her heart on her sleeve, but one tragedy too many may just harden that heart beyond repair. ONE FAMILY'S STRUGGLE TO REMAIN UNITED IN THE FACE OF UNIMAGINABLE LOSS AND HEARTBREAK.

August 1914, Clifton Park. Mrs Eloise Brannan refuses to believe there will be a war. For she knows what troubles and hardship it will bring upon her now grown-up children: headstrong Roderick and sweet Elizabeth, and their ever-patient cousin Dorothea. But war does indeed come, and Roderick is determined to fight. He secures a commission in France, leaving behind his pregnant wife, whose unhappiness at Clifton Park is no secret . . . Elizabeth remains at home with her mother, their once bustling house now almost empty. Even Dorothea has left for London to serve King and Country as a frontline nurse. A little over a year later. Looking through the windows at the beautiful September gardens, Eloise spots the Post Master's boy coming up the path. He's holding a telegram. What Eloise cannot know is that the contents of this message will irrevocably change her family's life for ever. But whatever happens, she knows the Brannans must stick together to survive.

Please note this book was previously published as Aunt Letitia.London, 1940.Letitia Warner has kept many secrets over the course of her ninety-one years. Now, she must choose what to tell - and what to take to her grave.Letitia wants nothing more than to see her great-nephew Hugh happily settled. Especially after the part she played in separating Hugh from his first love, Megan O'Connor, during World War I. With her unruly red hair, illegitimate origins, and suffragette leanings, she was quite unsuitable.Now the bombs of the Second World War are devastating London . . . and Megan O'Connor is back. She's a qualified doctor who's made something of her life, but at what price? Hugh is overjoyed to have found her again, but he's also keeping a dark secret of his own.Hugh, Megan, and Aunt Letitia must all decide their own fates.Should they tell the truth and risk everything, or live a lie?