Nick and Leone are frightened half to death by a winking scarecrow at the annual scarecrow festival but when Leone is given a book of old letters written by her great-grandfather from the trenches of the First World War, they find themselves digging into the murky past of Leone's family; a family damaged by treachery and wracked by guilt. From the battlefields of the First World War to a field hospital and into the present day Nick faces terrible dangers to free Leone's family from their past. The second in the Nick North series.