It's 1928. Freddie Watson is still grieving for his brother, lost in the Great War. Driving through the foothills of the French Pyrenees, his car spins off the road in a snowstorm. Freddie takes refuge in an isolated village and there meets a a beautiful, captivating woman.

Set during World War II in the far south of France, this is a mystery that reveals the secrets of the resistance under Nazi occupation. While war blazed in the trenches at the front, back at home a different battle is waged.

March 1928. The Great War has been over for 10 years, but Freddie Watson hasn't recovered from the loss of his brother. On holiday in south-west France, he cannot escape his grief. This is a story of two lives touched by war & transformed by courage.

March 1928. The Great War has been over for 10 years, but Freddie Watson hasn't recovered from the loss of his brother. On holiday in south-west France, he cannot escape his grief. This is a story of two lives touched by war & transformed by courage.

'Labyrinth' spans eight centuries to unite the destinies of two women - a modern-day archaeologist who uncovers a tomb with strange inscriptions on the walls, and a 13th-century herbalist and healer entrusted with a book that contains great secrets.

June 1572: for ten violent years the Wars of Religion have raged across France. Neighbours have become enemies, countless lives have been lost, and the country has been torn apart over matters of religion, citizenship and sovereignty. But now a precarious peace is in the balance: a royal wedding has been negotiated by Catherine de' Medici and Jeanne d'Albret, an alliance between the Catholic Crown and Henri, the Huguenot king of Navarre. It is a marriage that could see France reunited at last. Meanwhile in Puivert, an invitation has arrived for Minou Joubert and her family to attend. But what Minou does not know is that the Joubert family's oldest enemy, Vidal, will also be there. Nor that, within days of the marriage, on the eve of the Feast Day of St Bartholomew, Minou's family will be scattered to the four winds and one of her beloved children will have disappeared without trace.

Researching a biography of the composer Claude Debussy, Meredith Martin also seeks the key to her own complex legacy. Armed with a piece of piano music and a photograph, she soon becomes immersed in the story of a tragic love, a missing girl, an unquiet soul, and the events of one cataclysmic night more than a century ago.

Sussex, 1912. In a churchyard, villagers gather on the night when the ghosts of those who will die in the coming year are thought to be seen. Here, where the estuary leads out to the sea, superstitions still hold sway. Standing alone is the taxidermist's daughter. At seventeen, Constantia Gifford lives with her father in a decaying house: it is all that is left of Gifford's once world-famous museum of taxidermy. The stuffed animals that used to grace every parlour are out of fashion, leaving Gifford a disgraced and bitter man. The bell begins to toll and all eyes are fixed on the church. No one sees the gloved hand pick up a flint. As the last notes fade into the dark, a woman lies dead.

Researching a biography of the composer Claude Debussy, Meredith Martin also seeks the key to her own complex legacy. Armed with a piece of piano music and a photograph, she soon becomes immersed in the story of a tragic love, a missing girl, an unquiet soul, and the events of one cataclysmic night more than a century ago.