by Heather Webb
OF ALL THE letters she received during the war, Annie Rawlins kept just two. The only letter Jack had ever written, telling her of the poppies in the fields, and the letter Will had written soon after the Armistice was declared, a single red poppy pressed between the pages.
Life, and time, marched on as the soldiers marched home that spring. The daffodils danced in the breeze in Annie’s garden, and the poppies grew once more in the fields of France.
For Dad and Grandpa Tom.
With love.
About the Authors
Jessica Brockmole is the author of the internationally bestselling Letters from Skye, which was named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2013.
Hazel Gaynor is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home and A Memory of Violets. The Girl Who Came Home won the RNA Historical Romantic Novel of the Year, 2015. Born in Yorkshire, England, Hazel now lives in Ireland with her husband and two children.
Evangeline Holland was raised on both coasts and straight down the middle of America, where the differing landscapes and cultures inspired her love of history. She is the founder of Edwardian Promenade, an acclaimed blog for Edwardian/World War I history, and has written for various history magazines. Her fiction includes An Ideal Duchess and its sequel. She currently lives in Southern California, with a possessive and territorial cat, a perpetually disastrous kitchen, and rooms full of books.
Marci Jefferson spent years writing procedure manuals as a nursing administrator before she realized such writing lacked the sweeping adventure she longed for. Her royal novels Girl on the Golden Coin and Enchantress of Paris received high acclaim, including a Publishers Weekly starred review and coverage by local and national media. Marci is pursuing her nurse practitioner’s license while plotting her next novel.
Kate Kerrigan is the New York Times bestselling author of the Ellis Island Trilogy. Other novels include Recipes for a Perfect Marriage and The Dress. She lives in Ireland, where she writes a weekly newspaper column in the Irish Mail.
Jennifer Robson is the USA Today and international bestselling author of Somewhere in France, After the War Is Over, and Moonlight Over Paris. She holds a doctorate in modern history from the University of Oxford. Jennifer lives in Toronto with her husband and young children.
Heather Webb is an author, freelance editor, and blogger at award-winning writing sites WriterUnboxed.com and Writers in the Storm. Her works have been translated into three languages and have received national starred reviews. Heather is a member of the Historical Novel Society and the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and she may also be found teaching craft-based courses at a local college.
Beatriz Williams is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author of The Secret Life of Violet Grant, A Hundred Summers, and Tiny Little Thing. An honors graduate of Stanford University and with an MBA in finance from Columbia University, Beatriz spent several years as a corporate strategy consultant in New York and London before turning to historical fiction. She now lives with her husband and four children near the Connecticut shore, where she divides her time between writing and laundry.
Lauren Willig is the New York Times bestselling author of sixteen works of historical fiction. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, awarded the RITA, Booksellers Best, and Golden Leaf awards, and chosen for the American Library Association’s annual list of the best genre fiction. A graduate of Yale, Lauren has a graduate degree in history from Harvard and a JD from Harvard Law. She lives in New York City, where she now writes full-time.
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Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE DAUGHTER OF BELGIUM copyright © 2016 by Marci Jefferson.
THE RECORD SET RIGHT copyright © 2016 by Lauren Willig.
ALL FOR THE LOVE OF YOU copyright © 2016 by Jennifer Robson.
AFTER YOU’VE GONE copyright © 2016 by Evangeline Holland.
SOMETHING WORTH LANDING FOR copyright © 2016 by Jessica Brockmole.
HOUR OF THE BELLS copyright © 2016 by Heather Webb.
AN AMERICAN AIRMAN IN PARIS copyright © 2016 by Beatriz Williams.
THE PHOTOGRAPH copyright © 2016 by Kate Kerrigan.
HUSH copyright © 2016 by Hazel Gaynor.
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