GUERNSEY, CHANNEL ISLANDS, 1991 Ruth Samuels is moving to Guernsey. She feels alive again for the first time since her husband's death. Ruth recently met islander Matthew Frele and knew right away that their attraction is mutual. He is enigmatic and exciting, but there's something odd about him. She senses secrets and a disturbing inner anger barely controlled. Who is this man? What is he hiding? What is there in his past that holds him back from committing to a relationship? She guesses at abominations during his childhood under the German Occupation of the Channel Isles. Having fled the...