Funny storyDaphne always loved the way her fianc Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with

even when so many other responsibilities sit upon their shoulders

'Repulsively ugly

each desperate to save Angie and find out the truth about Lord Strythe

but they are also a rich source of wisdom: the wisdom of the ancients

she was met with wide-eyed disbelief

as well as the Monsal Trail

whom he had met and married at the Westerbork labour camp in the Netherlands

rural town by the edge of the sea

In the first years of the twentieth century

he swaps the moorland uplands of the north for the coastal fringes of Britain's south west

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from Germany