A nurse caring for soldiers in World War I makes a decision that will forever impact her family and the daughter she will one day have, who faces her own wartime challenges in World War II. In 1916, Nurse Pru le Cuirot leaves Jersey for Ashbury Manor in Dorset to aid injured soldiers, where she meets and falls for American pilot Jack Garland. When Jack disappears on a mission, Pru is forced to make a choice with lasting consequences. Decades later, in 1940, Pru's daughter Emma finds herself at Ashbury Manor as German forces occupy Jersey, and she becomes entangled in the secrets of her mother's past while navigating her own wartime fears and a mysterious beekeeper.

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