A stunning historical YA romance from bestselling author Lucy Strange, for fans of Laura Wood or Alwyn Hamilton.

‘An utterly luminous book, which stayed with me long after the final pages’ NATASHA FARRANT

Wartime Kent. Devastated, Juliet returns to her mother’s ancestral home in Dungeness to stay with her sister and recover from the loss of her fiancé, Xander, a dashing Spitfire pilot.

However, while sheltering with a group of young airmen during an air raid, she uncovers a truth about Xander that challenges everything she believed she knew about him.

To restore her faith in herself and love, she must solve the tragic murder of local girl Minnie Munday, with the spirit of Samphire House and an unlikely hero …

• Gorgeously romantic clean teen fiction from bestselling author Lucy Strange, author of Sisters of the Lost Marsh, The Ghost of Gosswaterand Waterstones Prize-shortlisted Our Castle by the Sea
• An unforgettable, sweeping WW2 romance with a thrilling murder mystery thread
• Showcases Lucy’s trademark themes, now for an older teenage readership: atmosphere, female identity and the gothic