Being bossed around by her arch enemy is not quite what Kitty had in mind for the start of her married life, but she’s excited to launch the glamorous show.

Newlywed Kitty Underhay has been enlisted by her old nemesis Mrs Craven to help organise the Miss Dartmouth Jubilee pageant at the Dolphin Hotel. Kitty Underhay is awarding first place… to murder. But will the guards believe his story? And, even if they do, will he make it to us before it is too late? He held my hand and promised me that if we were arrested, he would go undercover as a German soldier and save us. And when the Germans arrest me and my twin siblings, dragging us to a camp in the dead of night, I know that our only chance of survival, our only hope, is to be rescued.Īs I sit in my cell, I think of what Max told me. And as he slowly tells me his story, I realise I am falling in love with this man – with his bravery, and his determination to do what is right, no matter the cost.īut when the Nazis arrive, the small world we have built together is shattered in an instant. And as we share whispered candlelit conversations, he admits that he didn’t crash his plane, but parachuted over Poland to defect from the Nazis. Who is this man? And should I help him, or have him arrested? But when I look into his eyes for the first time, I feel in my heart that I must do everything I can to save this stranger’s life.Īs I begin to secretly nurse his injuries, he tells me his name is Max. When a German pilot crashes over my parents’ farmland, at first I am terrified. And in that moment, I know that this young man, and this decision, will change my life forever…

Poland, 1939: As I stare into the German pilot’s frightened eyes, I realise I have no choice but to help him.

The King's Road by Lina J. Potter