Unlocking the past is the key to the future . . .

From the internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley, The Light Behind the Window is a stunning historical romance story about love, war, and, above all, forgiveness.

Southern France, modern era. After the death of her glamorous but distant mother, Emilie de la Martinières finds herself alone in the world - and the sole inheritor of her large childhood home. A notebook of poems leads her to seek out the mysterious and beautiful Sophia, whose tragic love story changed the course of her family's history. As Emilie unravels Sophia's story, she embarks on a journey of discovery, finding that the château may hold clues to her own troubled past.

Paris, 1943. Constance Carruthers, a young MI5 clerk, is recruited into a special operations team, arriving in occupied Paris at the height of the conflict. Separated from her contact in France, she falls into the heart of a wealthy family involved in a deadly game of secrets and lies. Forced to surrender her identity and all contact with her homeland, Constance is absorbed into a complex web of deceit, the consequences of which will affect many generations to come . . .

Pages: 544, Publication Year: 0128, Dimensions: 13x13cm