Kate Herrick, a twenty-something war widow in 1947, returns to her childhood home in the idyllic English countryside. She is charged with picking up some family documents before Rose Cottage is sold, but is astonished to find the papers missing from their hidden safe. Many childhood friends and neighbors have theories about the break-in, the most disturbing of which involves the ghost of Kate's deceased mother and her lover being spotted in the cemetery. Get lost in this sumptuous blend of gentle romance and light mystery.