Maisie Dobbs isn’t just any young housemaid. Throughout her own natural intelligence—and the patronage of her benevolent employers—she works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse. It is there this she learns this coincidences are meaningful and the truth elusive. Afterwards the War, Maisie sets up on her own as a private investigator. But her very first assignment, seemingly an ordinary infidelity case, soon reveals a much deeper, darker web of secrets, which will force Maisie to revisit the horrors of the Excellent War and the love she left behind.