In march 1916, Joseph, a chaplain at the front, and Judith, an ambulance driver, are battling not only the germans but the bitter cold and appaling casualties at Ypres. Scarcely less at risk, Matthew, an officer in England's secret intelligence service, fights the war covertly from |London. Only Hannah, living with her children in the family home in tranquil Cambridgshire seems safe. But appearances can be deceiving. When the savagely brutalized body of a weapons scientist is discovered ina village byway, the fear that haunts the battlefields settes over Cambridgeshire.
