Christine Ottaway

Katya, a teenage Romanian orphan, longs for a family of her own but when Maria, a smart Romanian business woman, promises Katya a new life as an au pair in London, all does not work out as planned. Far from home and estranged from everything familiar, Katya finds herself not working as an au pair but instead becomes a domestic slave, imprisoned till Simon enters her life.Can he save her from her abusive life? Will Katya ever find the family she longs for?

Nick and Leone are frightened half to death by a winking scarecrow at the annual scarecrow festival but when Leone is given a book of old letters written by her great-grandfather from the trenches of the First World War, they find themselves digging into the murky past of Leone's family; a family damaged by treachery and wracked by guilt. From the battlefields of the First World War to a field hospital and into the present day Nick faces terrible dangers to free Leone's family from their past.The second in the Nick North series.