SECRETS OF NANREATH HALL

By Alix Rickloff

It is 1913, and WWI has only just begun, when the wealthy daughter of a more than wealthy Earl, Lady Katherine Trenowyth, decides she wants to choose her own future and experience far more than the sheltered life that comes with money.

Her father wants to have her portrait painted, and he hires an artist who comes to the house and brings an assistant, Simon Halliday, with him. Simon soon becomes more than a friend to Katherine, who then confides in him—telling Simon of her wish to prove to her family that she can get along just fine on her own. Her choices take her on a journey through the real world, which is much more difficult than she thought it would be. Finally stranding her all alone, with a child, and nowhere to go.

Shoot ahead twenty-five years later. It is now WWII and Katherine’s daughter, Anna, is a Red Cross nurse searching for answers. When Anna comes back to England, she’s posted to the Trenowyth’s family estate, Nanreath Hall, which has been turned into a hospital for soldiers who are too ill or wounded to return to the fighting. Anna hopes to learn more about the mother that she hardly remembers and a father that she never met, but her arrival isn’t welcomed by anyone.

As she tends to the wounded, drama ensues and Anna is drawn into her mysterious family’s lives, loyalties, tragedies and a lot of heartbreak. She must decide if the past is too dangerous to uncover, and readers will be absolutely fascinated by what path she chooses to walk down.

This story offers a myriad of tales and scenery involving the British world following the war. The character of Anna is a brave woman, determined to keep one step ahead while moving forward on her search for the truth. Rickloff has done a spectacular job bringing her tale to life.