Kristin Harmel is firmly in the top echelon of WW2 storytellers' HEATHER MORRIS'A master storyteller' SANTA MONTEFIORESome secrets echo through timeEmily Emerson has recently lost her job and is looking for a new purpose in life. When a mysterious parcel comes her way, she's intrigued. Inside is a painting of a beautiful woman standing at the edge of a sugarcane field, and attached is a note: 'He never stopped loving her ...'Emily recognises the young woman as her much-missed and beloved grandmother, but where was she, and who sent the painting? As Emily delves further, she uncovers a trail leading to a pivotal moment in twentieth-century American history, and a link with the portrait that reveals long-buried family secrets that ripple through the ages.

An unforgettable and sweeping story of love and survival against the odds.