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The Key In The Lock by Beth Underdown

2 February 2023 By Editor

The Great War is ending, but it has taken Ivy’s son. Ivy is consumed by discovering what happened to her boy out there in the trenches, while her husband only wants to forget. Then a man comes back into Ivy’s life who can help her find out. A man who once stole Ivy’s heart. A […]

The Key in the Lock by Beth Underdown

13 January 2022 By Editor

“I still dream, every night, of Polneath on fire…” By day, Ivy Boscawen mourns the loss of her son Tim in the Great War. But by night she mourns another boy – one whose death decades ago haunts her still. For Ivy is sure that there is more to what happened all those years ago: […]

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