New York: Bantam, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A stand-alone novel, a story of lies and violence, of family history and deceit, set in the early 1900s as a young woman attempts to find out the truth about her grandfather."The Great War is still raging in the autumn of 1916, when Francesca Hatton's beloved grandfather dies on the family estate in England's isolated Exe Valley. Grieving for the man who raised her, Francesca is stunned to find an unsigned letter among his effects, cursing the Hattons and their descendants. Now a stranger has shown up on her doorstep, accusing her grandfather of being a murderer." SIGNED on the title page by both authors as Charles Todd ("Charles Todd" is actually the mother/son writing team of Caroline and Charles Todd.) 352 pp. ISBN: 0-553803484.