"In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese...

There's a nurse at school and she's supposed to be a real ghoul. No one has ever seen her. At least, no one that's ever come back from the nurse's office!

Isla Montjoy has it all, a new career in nursing and a police officer boyfriend she adores until she stumbles across proof of her boyfriend's corruption. Determined to protect his secrets, he attacks her and leaves her for dead. But against all odds, she lives. On the run for two years, Isla's life is far from assured as her would-be murderer doggedly tracks her across the UK, intent on silencing her forever. On a climbing trip in the Scottish Highlands,...