Of Love And War.

VANESSA ALEXANDER

Publication: Headline, 2000, London

First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. Lieutenant Henry Gilpin is searching the country seeking out those who did not do their best for king and country in the Great War. When he reaches the town of Crouden, the name, Jack Aylward, is on the top of his list. As a child, Kitty Aylward spent her days with her closest friends, Billy and Jack. Eventually she married Billy but, before he left for the war, Billy asked one strange request from his wife --- if he should die, she must marry his closest friend. When her husband was killed, Kitty kept her promise, but now she realizes that Gilpin could hold a terrible secret concerning Jack and Billy's deaths.