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The Key in the Lock by Beth Underdown

13 January 2022 By Editor

Buy The Key in the Lock by Beth Underdown

“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: the fire at the Great House, and the terrible events that came after.

A truth she must uncover, if she is ever to be free.

The Key in the Lock by Beth Underdown is published on 13 January, 2022.

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