Ever since hairdresser Poppy Day married her childhood sweetheart, Mart, she's been deliriously happy. Now Mart is fighting in Afghanistan, and Poppy is counting the days until he returns. It takes one knock at the door to rip Poppy's world apart. Mart has been taken hostage, and it's too dangerous for the army to rescue him. Poppy is determined to bring him home herself. But her journey will lead her to a heartbreaking dilemma. What price will she...

When Jacy Wall cleaned out her attic, she didn't know that she ended up throwing away a precious piece of family history. But then her cousin's wartime diaries were rescued by an enterprising antiques dealer and she discovered a past that she didn't know existed. Evelyn Shillington's diaries tell the story of a woman full of British pluck who gamely followed her officer husband around Britain in course of his WWII army war service, making a home for...