Elizabeth Darrell
ASIN: B00VGF2E02
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 442
Summer, 1914.The Ashleigh family gather at Knightshill, their Wiltshire Mansion, to welcome home the black sheep of the family after his twelve year absence. Vere, the head of the family, awaits the return of his younger brother Val anxiously anticipating the moment when the family can be complete again, bound under the honourable Ashleigh tradition of military valour. But Val’s intentions are to settle his accounts and return to the outback.Yet fate is against him ad he must struggle with his own demons as memories thought to be long forgotten come back to haunt him.When the news of imminent war breaks, the attitudes of the household differ violently threatening to rip apart their bonds before the tragedy has even begun.Tim, Vere’s nephew, handsome, arrogant and immensely proud of his ancestry, looks forward to following the heroic precedent set by previous generations on the ...