From the "New York Times "and internationally bestselling author of "The Distant Hours," "The Forgotten Garden," and "The House at Riverton," a spellbinding novel filled with mystery, thievery, murder, and enduring love. During a summer party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is happily dreaming of the future. But before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime. A crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothyher vivacious, loving, nearly perfect mother. Now, fifty years later, the family is gathering at Greenacres farm for Dorothys ninetieth birthday. Realizing that this may be her last chance, Laurel searches for answers to the questions that haunt her from that long-ago day, answers that can only be found in Dorothys past. Dorothys story takes the reader from preWWII England through the blitz, to the 60s and beyond. It is the secret history of three strangers from vastly different worlds who meet by chance in wartime London and whose lives are forever entwined. Author Kate Morton, who excels at creating absorbing mystery ("People"), explores longings and dreams and the unexpected consequences they sometimes have. Richly detailed, "The Secret Keeper "is an enthralling tale of lovers and friends, deception and passion, told against a backdrop of events that changed the world.