Secrets can be fatal. But so can the truth...
When the murdered body of Lauren Shaw is discovered laid out on the altar
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Two women. One secret. A heart-breaking choice. Skye, 1903. Jessie, the young daughter of a local midwife, is determined to become a nurse one day, but family loss & heartache jeopardise her dreams. Isabel, the doctor's daughter, is planning to follow in her father's footsteps
- even though medicine is not considered a fitting career for a woman. & then there's Archie, Jessie's older brother, whom Isabel just can't stay away from. After an unsettling encounter in the woods, Archie disappears, & all their lives are irrevocably changed... Years later, Isabel is a qualified doctor & Jessie is a nurse & when their paths cross again, neither is certain what the other woman knows about that fateful day. But when war breaks out & they find themselves working shoulder to shoulder, they have no option but to confront all they have kept hidden. Taking in Skye & Edinburgh, France & Serbia, When the Dawn Breaks is a sweeping wartime story of two determined women & the dark secret that will bind them forever...