Ztracený slib – Mortonová Kate (2023)

It is June 1933, and Loeanneth, the Edevan family estate, is preparing for the traditional celebration of the summer solstice. Sixteen-year-old Alice Edevan is on edge: not only has she devised the perfect plot for her detective story, but she is also head over heels in love. However, before midnight strikes and the night sky is lit up by fireworks, the Edevans suffer a painful loss that will make them leave Loeanneth forever. Seventy years later, after a botched case, Sergeant Sadie Sparrow of the London police is sent on forced leave, so she heads to her grandfather's home in Cornwall. When she stumbles upon an abandoned house surrounded by a neglected garden in the middle of a deep forest and learns about a little boy who disappeared without a trace, her professional ambition awakens. By then, Alice Edevan, now an elderly lady, leads a life almost as meticulously organized as the detective stories that made her famous. But when the young police officer starts asking questions about her family's past, a complex web of secrets that Alice has been running from her entire life comes back to life...