Publisher's Synopsis
It is April 1939 and, unaware that the German war machine is heading towards the Channel Islands, seventeen-year-old Meg Colivet and her sisters are enjoying a holiday in Oxford with their aunt. Here Meg meets charismatic German undergraduate Rayner Weiss and the couple fall passionately in love. But all too soon Britain is at war with Germany and Guernsey is occupied. Meg insists on remaining with her family determined to save her beloved island from the ravages of war. And then she finds herself face to face with Rayner, now a German officer. Torn between her love for Rayner and her duty to her family, heartbroken Meg has a terrible choice to make...
