"Perry creates a meticulously detailed backdrop, whether [it’s the] home front or [the] front lines, while leaving plenty of room for her characters, to contemplate issues of honor, loyalty, and love The characters, familiar after two books, grow stronger and richer here, as Perry illuminates the emotional and physical character of war."

--Booklist

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 appalling 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 Cambridgeshire, seems safe. But appearances can be deceiving.

When the savagely brutalized body of a weapons scientist is discovered in a village byway, the fear that haunts the battlefields settles over Cambridgeshire along with the shadow of the obsessed ideologue who murdered the Reavleys’ parents on the eve of the war. Once again, this icy, anonymous powerhroker, the Peacemaker, is plotting to kill.