Christmas on the Coast

Can the secrets of the past be forgiven this Christmas?Christmas is approaching on the island of Jersey, but Libby is feeling far from festive. Her police work and duties as vicars wife weigh heavily on her, shes anxious about her troubled children, and now her best friend, Stella, has suddenly turned against her, citing a mysterious family grudge.Libby is devastated by Stellas unexpected coldness. But then her father shows her a diary written by her great-aunt Queenie, which sheds light on a long-hidden secretone rooted in love, loyalty and betrayal. Writing during the Nazi occupation of Jersey in the winter of 1941, Queenie reveals a community torn apart by illicit romance, heartbreak and revengeand by dark acts of fear and desperation.The more Libby immerses herself in Queenies journal, the more she understands why its secrets still haunt her family and Stellas. Christmas is a time of forgiveness, but is the treachery of their shared past too shameful to be forgotten?